I would recommend going through R GUIs like R Commander (including the 20 plugins for other packages) and Rattle.

Try http://rattle.togaware.com/ and also http://rcom.univie.ac.at/ for R Excel

Ajay

"If you have the guts, you will have the glory"

--- On Thu, 7/29/10, Daniel Nordlund <djnordlund@VERIZON.NET> wrote:

> From: Daniel Nordlund <djnordlund@VERIZON.NET> > Subject: Re: Calling users of R.... > To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Date: Thursday, July 29, 2010, 11:13 AM > > -----Original Message----- > > From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] > On > > Behalf Of Craig Johnson > > Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 7:29 PM > > To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > > Subject: Re: Calling users of R.... > > > > My guess is you guys deal with datasets that are WAY > larger > > than I would be dealing with (under 500) and the > statistics > > we would be running aren't that complicated either. > > > > The funny thing is I have R installed and I've looked > at it > > but one of the things holding me back is that it seems > like R > > doesn't allow you to have a "grid view." I > always check data > > manipulations after words and having to dig through > text > > files (r files) doesn't sound like that much > fun. Is there > > ways around this or is R more just models/output? > > > > Any recommended links for learning R (graphics and > examples > > files are good!)? Any links for how people are > integrating R and SAS? > > Try Googling 'R and SAS' and you will find lots of > information. Here is one > URL. > > http://www.hollandnumerics.co.uk/pdf/SAS2R2SAS_paper.pdf > > In addition there has been a lot of discussion of R on > SAS-L in the past > year, so check the archives. There are also SAS user > group and SGF papers > on SAS and R that you can search for (check out Les > Jansen's site). > > http://www.lexjansen.com/ > > Also check out the link to Documentation -> Contributed > on the CRAN site. > > http://cran.r-project.org/ > > Finally, for a simple grid view of dataframes in R you can > try > > edit(your_dataframe) > > Hope this is helpful, > > Dan > > Daniel Nordlund > Bothell, WA USA >