Statistical Software in the Higher School Educational Process

Data processing is not possible without a computer with the appropriate software. Before the user there is a problem of choosing software for research. Therefore the aim was to analyze software for statistical research. To achieve the goal the scientific and methodological sources were analyzed, comparison, generalization were made to determine the state of a problem and perspective directions of its solution. The paper presents the software capabilities of such tools as MS Excel, Statistica, IBM SPSS, R. Special attention is focused on the calling R from other software, including Statistica, IBM SPSS, Mathematica, LaTeX. The popular commercial statistical software provides the ability to perform R script directly in the shell of these programs. It is proposed to use R package for the scientific research and in the higher school educational process. In the educational process it is appropriate to use the project method. Students made report and presentation by using integrating R into LaTeX.