Quantitative Methods: Theory and Design

Hi! I’m Dana Wanzer, assistant professor of psychology in evaluation at the University of Wisconsin-Stout and avid #EvalTwitter user!  My last “a-ha!” moment using R, and the one that has solidified that I am never going back to my previous statistical software, was when I realized how quickly and easily I could create reports.  Have …

R Week: Using R to Create and Update Reports by Dana Wanzer Read More »

Hi, I’m Ava Elliott, Senior Research Assistant at Public Profit, an evaluation and strategy consulting firm located in Oakland, California. Last year, we decided to hang up our SPSS hat and take the leap to R. It was not an easy decision to make. Being consultants, we need to be able to work quickly and …

R Week: How We Moved Our Entire Team to R by Ava Elliott Read More »

Hi, I’m Tom McKlin, Executive Director of The Findings Group. We have been transitioning our data analyses and visualizations to R for the past couple of years. The question I faced (and still face) when making this transition was, how can we best apply R to either improve our efficiency, accuracy, or communication of complex …

R Week: Process Analysis: Determining Where to Begin with R by Tom McKlin Read More »

Hi, I’m Tom McKlin, Executive Director of The Findings Group. We have been transitioning our data analyses and visualizations to R for the past couple of years. The question I faced (and still face) when making this transition was, how can we best apply R to either improve our efficiency, accuracy, or communication of complex …

R Week: Process Analysis: Determining Where to Begin with R by Tom McKlin Read More »

Hi, I’m Eric Einspruch, Principal of ELE Consulting, LLC. R has been my primary data analysis tool for the past few years. Once you have installed R and a graphical user interface such as RStudio, it’s time to get to work. Before you start, you need to install the packages that you want to use. …

R Week: Fundamental Data Tasks in R by Eric Einspruch Read More »

Hi, I’m David Keyes, founder of R for the Rest of Us, which helps people who think of themselves as “typical” R users learn this incredible tool. R has a reputation for being difficult to learn, but there are some ways that you can get up and running quickly. And, even if it takes you …

R Week: Getting Started with R by David Keyes Read More »

Hello, we are David Keyes, Eric Einspruch, Tom McKlin, Ava Elliott, and Dana Wanzer. We are a group of evaluators who have come to embrace the power of R. Throughout this week, we look forward to sharing some of the benefits of this incredibly powerful software (that also happens to be free!). To start things …

R Week: Introduction – How R has Transformed Our Work by This Week’s Authors Read More »