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primum non nocere sans documentum ([personal profile] delight) wrote2018-08-30 02:56 pm

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I know I have a few math people out there, so dear math people, please help!

(Okay, except to some of you, your response will be "statistics is not math," we can fight about that later. I identify as a stats person but firmly not a math person myself - it's hard to be a math person with dyscalculia, but it actually isn't hard to be a statistician at all!)

Today I learned that my job can't keep maintaining my SPSS license, and also that for the same budgetary reasons, we can't really afford to pay for training on R; R's software is thankfully free. My graduate school did have classes in the topic but they were outside my track and were always filled by biostat majors before any elective slots even opened.

What I am looking for, then, is good free Internet resources for learning R! I already know both SAS and SPSS and don't need a from-nothing background necessarily, but one of those might be easier to locate.

Thanks in advance!
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[personal profile] yhlee 2018-08-31 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
From my epidemiologist friend, who uses SAS but pinged a friend of hers who uses R:
My go-to R guy recommends the book “R for Data Science” (available free online) and says he’s heard good things about Data Camp (not free) and recommends focusing on the tidyverse for someone who wants to get up and running ASAP vs digging into the nitty-gritty program language stuff.

I hope some of this is helpful!

R for Data Science appears to be here, BTW.