neatStats

This R package aims to give a most down-to-earth way possible to get clear, comprehensive, reportable stats out of data from simple (psychological) experiments. If you are looking for advanced and fancy methods, look elsewhere.

One main point is that all functions use data frames with single row per subjects. Not because “it’s like that in SPSS”, but because that’s the clear and logical way, and because all the reshaping/melting/casting/dcasting is a tiresome fuss even for those not new to it, let alone novices, and leads to a lot of totally unnecessary confusion and problems.

Installation in R

Just run:

install.packages("neatStats")

Then load with: library("neatStats")

Usage

See the EXAMPLE.md for an example pipeline for every step from raw data to reportable statistics.

For details about each function, see the manual (or enter help(xy) or ?xy in R for any specific function).

Support

• If you have any question about statistics, ask a statistician (not me).
• If you run into an error despite carefully following the documentation, open a new issue or email me.
• If you have sound reason to believe that some of the presented statistics (or functions) are really not optimal and/or could be improved in some plausible way, email me.