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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The base installation of R is as accessible as stats software gets.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">R commander is an add-on that uses a development toolkit that creates an inaccessible front end that overlays R.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
<span lang="IT">It is really useful for sighted students who have used other stats software like SPSS or Minitab where pull down menus and dialogue boxes are the normal way of working. It does alos generate R code, but this code is not just basic R but includes
commands specific tot he Rcmdr library.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">If you do choose to continue using R, then you will need to use R without the R commander add-on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">You may find a few useful things to help you on your way with R at
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><a href="http://r-resources.massey.ac.nz">http://r-resources.massey.ac.nz</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">I updated a couple of the pages there yesterday actually having created a few MP3 files with some of the basic things I done with R and a few screen reader and
operating system combinations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">You might drop me a line with your experiences of R and SPSS at some stage. I am trying to keep a good handle on how blind people are getting on with statistics
software.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Jonathan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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