This is my new favorite forum OFFICIALLY!

[Rsinton]

Just wanted to make an announcement in my state of delirium, before I slip into oblivion: I officially LOVE this forum, it is going on my Bookmarks Bar in front of a myriad of other sites (including Facebook). People are always here when I have a question about R and since my last statistics class was mostly just a "here's the code, go copy paste it with different variables" my actual learning never took place and I now find myself in a class that requires extensive use of statistical software and manipulation of the data and parameters to create, and I quote, "pretty plots and graphs."

I began using XLSTAT because that's what all the grad students said to use and what all of my fellow undergrads are using (we're in a winemaking program so most of us don't come from super computer sciencey backgrounds, although we're all pretty computer savvy). I realized pretty quickly that I wasn't going to be able to manipulate the data easily and effectively unless I did it in R, so I'm now on a quest to learn R through this class by trial and error while hopefully making "pretty reports!" I'm also hoping this skill will serve me for the rest of my life.

I just finished the first report and, while it's not perfect, I am very happy with how it turned out because of what I learned to do in R and with the help of forum mods and members here!

So THANK YOU again!

Best,
Rob

[trinker]

Glad to have you Rob. As your knowledge grows we look forward to you also providing help to other users in the same way you've been helped.

May I ask what areas of stats are your focus or you are particularly interested in?

I found myself in the same boat as a literacy person with R. I knew I had to learn it because it was so awesome but I didn't have a background in computer science either. The people here were awesome in helping (Including that evil robot Dason; watch out for him ) and now I feel I'm pretty proficient. The cool thing is we all have very different perspectives and interests on stats and R so you get a great range of skills and abilities.

PS we expect to help in sampling from your population distribution

[ledzep]

Welcome to the forum. This is a great place to be if you are looking to learn and share knowledge. R is a great software/skills to learn. Although I have had exposure to R for a long time, I never got around to use it for purpose of real analysis. It is only since last September I have been using R as my bread and butter software, which is about the time I joined this forum. I was just amazed by the level of support I found here for R, and surprise surprise, the forum was in my bookmarks bar in no time.

I hope you've already checked out our Info thread on R.
http://www.talkstats.com/showthread....uals-Books-etc.)

Hope you'll join in different threads and give us your opinions.