I started using R about two years ago. I didn’t hear about it until about 3 or 4 years ago, when it earned the occasional reference in an advanced stats class. Even in those classes, R was never required or, at least explicitly, encouraged. The only real exposure I had was when the “equivalent R code” was attached to a homework assignment that otherwise assumed we were using Mplus or SAS. The R code was provided in case any of us happened to be R users. As far as I could tell, none of us [non quant-psych students] were. The teaching assistants, on the other hand, gravitated toward it. Most of the stats classes I took were offered by the quantitative psychology program. The TAs for the classes were actually taking a lot of the same stats classes that I was taking, so I’d sit next a quant psych grad student in one class, and they’d be my TA in the next one.
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