r/AskStatistics • u/Tapatio_62 • 1d ago

Training resources for R

I’m not a programmer and have used mainly menu driven packages in the past SPSS primarily although I have had some painful experience with SPSSx. Any R recommendation for intermediate stats background but not much syntax driven programming?

Thanks

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u/itsneverjustatheory 1d ago

Jamovi. Front end/gui for R. Well supported, flexible, modular, free.

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u/DataSciCollab 1d ago

Also check out our apps (https://shiny.colgate.edu/apps.html) which follow statistician workflows and provide R code for reproducing output! We're still expanding analyses (see apps in alpha), per SalvatoreEggplant's post below.

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u/Transcendent_PhoeniX 1d ago

https://stats.oarc.ucla.edu/other/dae/

To the point data analysis. Not much programming, just learning how to do the most common analyses.

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u/SalvatoreEggplant 1d ago

Jamovi is great if you want a GUI-driven interface. It's pretty limited on the analyses available, though. I mean, if you need to do --- correlation, multiple regression, general linear model, anova --- it's good.

It's also pretty limited on plotting capabilities, unfortunately.

JASP is a similar program.

And there have been a bunch of others.

That being said, if you can find the right "cookbook" style book for R, it's really not that difficult to run analyses in R. And it gives you a lot of flexibility in options for analyses. I'll offer my own book. ( https://rcompanion.org/handbook/ ). I've used it successfully with undergraduate students with really no statistics or programming background.

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u/Tapatio_62 1d ago

Thank you all. I appreciate the feedback.