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The Case for Switching

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Cartoon of a researcher at a Caribbean crossroads choosing between a cracked SPSS path and a paved R path leading to the coast
One road costs you a license fee. The other one costs you a learning curve.

Your First R Session

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Cartoon of a researcher at a Caribbean beach bar opening his laptop to the R console, with an iguana watching from the counter
The iguana is optional. The coconut water is not.

Data Manipulation

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Cartoon of a researcher as a Caribbean chef with jars labeled filter(), select(), and mutate(), cooking a pot of tidy data
You can’t cook without ingredients. You can’t wrangle without verbs.

Visualization with ggplot2

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Cartoon of a researcher painting a tropical sunset onto a ggplot2 canvas with flamingos and plot axes
SPSS gives you a chart. ggplot2 gives you a language.

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Statistical Analysis in R

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Cartoon of a researcher as a beach detective following a regression line in the sand while crabs carry p-values on their shells
Same tests, fewer menus, more crabs.

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Reproducible Reporting

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Cartoon of a researcher pressing a big red button on a tropical machine that converts raw data into a finished report
Your supervisor changed the sample. Again. Good thing you only need one button.

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Where to Go from Here

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Cartoon of a researcher on a sailboat studying a treasure map of R learning destinations like Packages Cove and Tidyverse Peak
You learned the basics. The map has a lot more islands.