2. I worked through two text books: @ProfAndyField's R book https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/discovering-statistics-using-r/book236067 … and the FREE @LSRbook PDF http://compcogscisydney.org/learning-statistics-with-r/ … I still refer to these books when doing analysis
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3. LOTS of googling and trial + error. You can do all the courses in the world, but there's nothing like working with your own dataset. A bit of warning though, this will *occasionally* happen https://xkcd.com/979/ BUT there's usually more than 1 way to do something in Rpic.twitter.com/olVRNQvUCT
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4. To learn plotting in
#Rstats, I image search plots by googling "name of plot R" and then following the link for the nicest looking plot to the R scriptpic.twitter.com/pdtR4QIkN3
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If you’re STILL hesitant to make the switch, from SPSS to
#Rstats just check out these usage trends for statistical software http://r4stats.com/articles/popularity/ … Your department might be the last one teaching SPSS, but that doesn’t mean you have to be the last person using itpic.twitter.com/QxjKTPLDQg
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Nice that SPSS it is plummeting but odd that R is not displacing it. Presumably "R" isn't a very good search term?
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I like R myself but I think the problem is that most people really don’t like command line interfaces. R has a bit of an accessibility problem, basically.
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That would not just be R but all programming languages. Sadly, it's just how it has to be. One point though that I would like to underline is that accessibility has many guises. Most CLI are 100% accessible if by accessible we mean can easily be read by a screen reader.
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Yeah, I’d say the same of Python and Matlab tbh (Matlab having the added problem of being ludicrously expensive). When I mention accessibility there I’m thinking more of the (perceived?) barrier to entry. Annecdotal but I know a lot of engineering postgrads who won’t touch a CLI.
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Mostly because it’s “programming” to them and programming is a scary thing they did one module on in first year and avoid like the plague.
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Here’s an interesting perspective on teaching R to undergradshttps://datahowler.wordpress.com/2016/09/10/no-more-excuses-r-is-better-than-spss-for-psychology-undergrads-and-students-agree/ …
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Given I was taught C over three days (the module was literally called CCC: crash course in C) and that I taught Python to both Oxford and Birkbeck students — nothing scares me with respect to teaching programming to undergrads nor to seniors. 
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