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Huh so cool, what was the problem you ran across? And what were you computing in the end?
Oh wow, congrats!

I'm just getting into R myself and it's really neat just learning about all the stuff it can do :)
Its power is incommensurable, and the fact that it's open source means it will continue to grow. It's really cool :)
Yes! For my studies I had to use SPSS for the longest time, and I discovered R on my own later on during them. I used to really dislike stats before but now I'm increasingly interested in it, and I attribute that partially to R being so comprehensive and open-source, and partially to the rich community these characteristics have built up around it :)

I also really like how it teaches you some basics about programming as well, something else I haven't really been formally educated in, but that I'm doing more and more just because it's so fun and useful! SPSS was all GUI which wasn't bad of course, but I really like the rawer, more direct interface with R. It feels like I'm talking more directly to the computer, and like I can do more things with it this way.

Out of curiosity, how did you start with R, and with stats in general?
So cool!

Did you also find that everyone was using SPSS everywhere and no one had ever heard of R, and then suddenly, as if overnight, R was what everyone was using as if they had been all along, just one day randomly?
hahaha I was a bit more in the 'in' regarding R, so it did not come as a surprise. But I did see many of my colleague's faces of deep disappointment when they realized they had to learn how to do statistics from scratch from one day to the other. I just taught a class on research design to first year bachelor students today, and I told them that the future of science is to use open-source software and freely available programming languages like Python and R, and that they should start teaching themselves these languages yesterday. Some of their faces expressed puzzlement, but I'm sure they'll thank me for it in the future.
Oh definitely. I think in the long run much of Linux will win out as well, it just makes sense. Just all the things you can do with it, without asking permission of your machine or paying through the nose for subpar services!