[Blindmath] Spss 16 nightmare

[Robin Williams]

Vincent, 
  Yes, R can do everything that SPSS can do (almost certainly) and probably
more if you use the various freely-distributed packages available. It is
accessible to a large degree, especially if you run the back-end terminal
(rterm.exe) found in the /bin directory. 
  I don't know for sure, but there is almost certainly a plugin to enable
you to read SPSS files. Check out the r-project website. If I am wrong and
there isn't, just export the output to some common format and import it with
R. 
  HTH

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-----Original Message-----
From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jared Wright
Sent: 31 January 2009 22:20
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Spss 16 nightmare

Vincent, Is your instructor not using the standard JDK distributed by 
Sun for developing Java? If that's the compiler being used, and I've no 
idea why it wouldn't be, you should be able to just compile from the 
command line with javac. Of course, if you like the interactive 
environment of Eclipse, that's another story but if it's merely because 
of compilation problems, this might be preferable.

Will be happy to help further off list, but I venture beyond the scope 
of this community now.

Best,
Jared

vincent wrote:
> Hello:
> I am taking a quantitative research methods and Engineering Psychology
class
> this semester and both are requiring me to use SPSS version 16 to
calculate
> results.  I have done everything imaginable to make SPSS talk enough for
me
> to use, but to no avail.  I have installed the old scripts and the Java
> access bridge.  It speaks somewhat, but not enough to truly function.  The
> disability services office took my advice and is going to provide me a
> reader to read the screen for me, so I can at least complete my homework.

>
> Does anyone know if the statistical package "R: can do the same things
that
> SPSS will do?  Also, will it read a .sav Spss file or will I have to try
and
> export the data from the spss file.  
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, because I just don't have the
> time to do all the research this weekend myself.  I have to spend time
> catching up in my JAVA programming class.  Of curse the compiler the
school
> is using was written in JAVA and does not speak enough to use.  I have
moved
> on to Eclipse and am happily coding away.
>
>
>
> "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you'll be
a
> Man, my son!"
>
> Rudyard Kipling
>
>  
>
>
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