Farewell SPSS: Switching to free software in 2024

Challenges changing statistical software – for lecturers, students, and researchers: In recent years, universities around the world have ventured to switch from SPSS to R interfaces such as jamovi, JASP or RStudio for teaching purposes. Are you one of those who are still hesitating to switch or reading about it for the first time? Then this article is for you. The information and switching strategies in this article are based on 7 years of experience teaching with the new generation of more accessible R-GUIs that surfaced after the wild success of RStudio. And ultimately those years led to the farewell of my university group from SPSS. JASP and jamovi are now taking over (the world).