\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1}Overview of this and related documents}{2}{section.1} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {2}Install R and relevant packages}{2}{section.2} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.1}Install R for the first time}{3}{subsection.2.1} \contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {2.1.1}Install R }{4}{subsubsection.2.1.1} \contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {2.1.2}Install relevant packages}{9}{subsubsection.2.1.2} \contentsline {paragraph}{Install the minimum set}{9}{section*.2} \contentsline {paragraph}{Install a few more packages }{11}{section*.3} \contentsline {paragraph}{Install a ``task view" to get lots of packages}{11}{section*.4} \contentsline {paragraph}{Make the {\textit {psych}} package active.}{12}{section*.5} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {2.2}Seeing what packages are installed and active}{12}{subsection.2.2} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {3}Reading in the data for analysis}{12}{section.3} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.1}Find a file and read from it}{12}{subsection.3.1} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.2}Copy the data from another program using the copy and paste commands of your operating system}{13}{subsection.3.2} \contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {3.3}Import from an SPSS or SAS file}{14}{subsection.3.3} \contentsline {section}{\numberline {4}Some simple descriptive statistics before you start}{15}{section.4}