Using R in SPSS

- SPSS has a very strong history…in the social and behavioral sciences.…That actually is where it gets its name from.…It used to be Statistical Package for the Social Sciences.…But it's used in a number of other industries as well.…On the other hand, the Statistical Programming Language art,…has grown exponentially in popularity and in capabilities.…One of the really neat things is that SPSS…now allows you to integrate R's functionality…into the SPSS environment.…I'm gonna show you how to do that.…

This is a little bit complicated.…We have to download a few extra things.…But it can really be worthwhile to get…the extra capabilities and functions of R.…I'm gonna start by first going up to Help…and just clicking on this item right here: Working With R.…And what this does is it opens up…the browser-based help menu.…And I'm actually gonna come over here…to Integration Plug-in for R Help.…And it's gonna tell us two things that we need to do.…The first thing is actually listed last here.…

You need to install R onto your computer.…