# Re: SPSS

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-spss/93653>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [December 2, 2005, 11:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-spss/93653 "2005-12-02T11:26:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nuralanur](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@Nuralanur](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nuralanur)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 11:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-spss/93653/1 "2005-12-02T11:26:37Z")

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Dear Mike,

now, … SPSS is commercial software…  
I was wondering what you think of R, or GNU S,

\_[http://www.r-project.org/\_](http://www.r-project.org/_) ([http://www.r-project.org/](http://www.r-project.org/)) .

In three minutes of googling, (and no further  
experimentation or in-depth reading)  
I found a project called Quantian

\_[http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html\_](http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html_)  
([Quantian](http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/quantian.html))

which is based on R and which promises to have Ruby  
support and plotting via gnuplot.  
Maybe a quick solution to your suggestion could  
be to add some kind of web support via  
Ruby on Rails to that project ?

Best regards,

Axel

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**Author:** ![Nuralanur](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@Nuralanur](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nuralanur)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2005, 11:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-spss/93653/2 "2005-12-02T11:51:06Z")

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RWeb is a web frontend to R.  
Getting R and ruby to play nicely together is no big deal.

Ciao.