Re: PSPP brings an industry standard statistical tool to Linux
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 87.61.53.234]
on October 23, 2008 06:34 PM
pspp doesn't hold a candle to R period! And frankly, IMHO that's true of spss too. I use R with the RKWard. RKWard turns R into an IDE for all your statistical work. I've used spss and sas for years - still using them occasionally, R+RKWard beats most commercial packages hands down! In R you have the newest versions of the methods you need. You are not forced to live with incorrectly applied or outdated methods for years and you can create your own versions according the absolutely latest in the literature or if someone else has been there before you and made a package of it, simply install their package and you are set to go. That's progress you can believe in ;-)
Btw, interestingly R's import function for spss files comes directly from the pspp project - in that sense they are related which is the most interesting about pspp. It only supports a small subset of spss 7 functions while spss is now at version 17 so to me the pspp project, as much as I admire it, is a bit past its time. Spss is in many ways outdated (regarding statistics) so producing a clone is not as important as it was when pspp started many years ago.
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Re: PSPP brings an industry standard statistical tool to Linux
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 87.61.53.234] on October 23, 2008 06:34 PMBtw, interestingly R's import function for spss files comes directly from the pspp project - in that sense they are related which is the most interesting about pspp. It only supports a small subset of spss 7 functions while spss is now at version 17 so to me the pspp project, as much as I admire it, is a bit past its time. Spss is in many ways outdated (regarding statistics) so producing a clone is not as important as it was when pspp started many years ago.
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