Additional Resources for Working with R

The following resources are available for getting more information about working with R within IBM® SPSS® Statistics.

• Complete documentation for all of the functions available with the IBM SPSS Statistics - Integration Plug-in for R is available in the Help system under the topic Integration Plug-in for R Help. The documentation also includes simple examples of performing the common tasks of retrieving data and writing results back as pivot table output or new datasets.
• Complete documentation of the XML schema for specifying the syntax of extension commands is available in the Help system in the Reference section.
• For more information on creating extension commands, see the article "Writing IBM SPSS Statistics Extension Commands", available from the IBM SPSS Predictive Analytics community at https://developer.ibm.com/predictiveanalytics/. You may also want to consult the chapter on Extension Commands in Programming and Data Management for IBM SPSS Statistics, which is also available from the IBM SPSS Predictive Analytics community.
• A set of working examples of custom dialogs for extension commands that are implemented in R is included with IBM SPSS Statistics - Essentials for R. See the topic "R Extension Commands for SPSS Statistics" under Integration Plug-in for R Help in the Help system.