R for SAS and SPSS Users

Cover -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- TOC$Contents -- CH$1 Introduction -- 1.1 Why Learn R? -- 1.2 Is R Accurate? -- 1.3 What About Tech Support? -- CH$2 The Five Main Parts of SAS and SPSS -- CH$3 Programming Conventions -- CH$4 Typographic Conventions -- CH$5 Installing and Updating R -- 5.1 Installing Add-on Packages -- 5.2 Loading an Add-on Package -- 5.3 Updating Your Installation -- 5.4 Uninstalling R -- 5.5 Choosing Repositories -- 5.6 Accessing Data in Packages -- CH$6 Running R -- 6.1 Running R Interactively on Windows -- 6.2 Running R Interactively on Macintosh -- 6.3 Running R Interactively on Linux or UNIX -- 6.4 Running Programs that Include Other Programs -- 6.5 Running R in Batch Mode -- 6.6 Running R from SPSS -- 6.7 Graphical User Interfaces -- 6.7.1 R Commander -- 6.7.2 Rattle for Data Mining -- 6.7.3 JGR Java GUI for R -- CH$7 Help and Documentation -- 7.1 Help Files -- 7.2 Starting Help -- 7.3 Help Examples -- 7.4 Help for Functions that Call Other Functions -- 7.5 Help for Packages -- 7.6 Help for Datasets -- 7.7 Books and Manuals -- 7.8 E-mail Lists -- 7.9 Searching the Web -- 7.10 Vignettes -- CH$8 Programming Language Basics -- 8.1 Simple Calculations -- 8.2 Data Structures -- 8.2.1 Vectors -- 8.2.2 Factors -- 8.2.3 Data Frames -- 8.2.4 Matrices -- 8.2.5 Arrays -- 8.2.6 Lists -- 8.3 Saving Your Work So Far -- 8.4 Comments to Document Your Programs -- 8.5 Controlling Functions (Procedures) -- 8.5.1 Controlling Functions with Arguments -- 8.5.2 Controlling Functions with Formulas -- 8.5.3 Controlling Functions with an Object???s Class -- 8.5.4 Controlling Functions with Extractor Functions ??? ODS, OMS -- 8.5.5 How Much Output Is There? -- 8.5.6 Writing Your Own Functions (Macros) -- CH$9 Data Acquisition -- 9.1 The R Data Editor -- 9.2 Reading Delimited Text Files -- 9.3 Reading Text Data Within a Program (Datalines, Cards, Begin Data) -- 9.4 Reading Data from the Keyboard -- 9.5 Reading Fixed-Width Text Files, One Record per Case -- 9.5.1 Macro Substitution -- 9.6 Reading Fixed-Width Text Files, Two or More Records per Case -- 9.7 Importing Data from SAS -- 9.8 Importing Data from SPSS -- 9.9 Exporting Data -- 9.9.1 Viewing an External Text File -- CH$10 Selecting Variables ??? Var, Variables= -- 10.1 Selecting Variables in SAS and SPSS -- 10.2 Selecting All Variables -- 10.3 Selecting Variables by Index Number -- 10.4 Selecting Variables by Column Name -- 10.5 Selecting Variables Using Logic -- 10.6 Selecting Variables by String Search (varname: or varname1-varnameN) -- 10.7 Selecting Variables Using $ Notation -- 10.8 Selecting Variables by Simple Name: attach and with -- 10.9 Selecting Variables with the subset Function (varname1- varnameN) -- 10.10 Selecting Variables by List -- 10.11 Generating Indexes A to Z from Two Variable Names -- 10.12 Saving Selected Variables to a New Dataset -- 10.13 Example Programs for Variable Selection -- CH$11 Selecting Observations ??? Where, If, Select If, Filter -- 11.1 Selecting Observations in SAS and SPSS -- 11.2 Selecting All Observations -- 11.3 Selecting Observations by Index Number -- 11.4 Selecting Observations by Row Name -- 11.5 Selecting Observations Using Logic -- 11.6 S