Disclaimer

Some of my favorite people out in DWland have been having some bad times over the past day or two and my Words Issues have reached the kind of critical mass where I can't find the right things to say or the way I want to say them despite the concepts being present in my head. It's obnoxiously variable and sometimes I can say what I want and sometimes I can't, and responses to detailed statements are things I'm having trouble with. I don't mean to ignore big issues by responding to single statements in long posts with single statements of my own, or ignore major things entirely.

This is because I have a brain injury that makes me expressive-aphasic in a lot of weird gradual ways (and also means I need to watch out because the way it's ramping up I'm going to be completely unable to talk for a little while soon) and not because I do not care.

It's very much the opposite, and I'm heartbroken that I can't find a way to say, specifically, what I think of things and why I care and why negative self-talk is inaccurate or why the public or that specific problem person doesn't know shit about [thing] and those losers are totally wrong because of [reason with citation] (my specialty).

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ I am sorry my brain is not allowing me to be the strength of friend I want! Please take this blanket apology because PMing it individually to a bunch of people would be super weird!


ETA: And then I ate scalding hot rice and set my mouth on fire, so I now also physically can't talk very well. IT IS APPARENTLY ONE OF THOSE DAYS. :P

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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!