1. CENTER FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE COMPUTATION AND RESEARCH (CSSCR) UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FALL 2015 CONSULTANT: SHIN HAENG LEE Intro to R with R commander

2. Class Objectives Introducing R commander Opening and managing datasets Running descriptive statistics and crosstabs Simple inferential analyses Resources for learning more about R

3. Basic Structure of R R is organized by packages, which contain functions R provides minimal output and stores the results in an object for subsequent exploration.

4. R Commander > library(Rcmdr)

5. Importing a Data File in SPSS Select Data > Import data > from SPSS data set Change the name for the data set Locate and select your data file, then click Open. Check to see the data appears as in your original dataset You should locate the data file in the folder p:\Courses\spssint For the examples covered in this presentation, open “GSS2012.sav ”

6. Helpful Resources Quicktime classes and handouts on the CSSCR website:  http://julius.csscr.washington.edu/software.htm http://julius.csscr.washington.edu/software.htm Many other resources online to help you learn R and SPSS (tutorials, blogs, etc.). Some examples: http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/r/ http://tryr.codeschool.com/ http://data.princeton.edu/R/ CSSCR offers classes on R every quarter or call us to schedule an appointment with one of the CSSCR consultants!