After years of watching my favorite stats programs die painful deaths under the baleful eye of SPSS and SAS, and then having to pay to use SPSS after there was little left for a Mac OS user, I've decided to take the plunge and begin using R in order to do the statistical analyses on my psycholinguistic data. I'm a little late to this R craze (I think I may be among the last of my peers to make the move), but I kept telling myself I'd make the change in this mythical "free time" that other people speak of.
Why do a blog about it? I'm not sure, actually - I've never done a public blog before. But, my experiences thus far have been amusing (and frustrating) and I'm thinking perhaps they can serve as an example to others. Or, failing that, at least be entertaining. There are a ton of resources out there for R, which I will try to collect here for my benefit as much as any one else's. But, these appear to be resources from people who already know what they are doing, who don't make mistakes, and don't use R in a Mac environment or take an hour to figure out how to save a data file (just, for example).
So, if you are looking for an Expert Resource on R, then it may be best for you to avert your eyes and move along. If you are looking for a kind of support group for R users, this might turn out to be the right place.
