[R] Re: your mail

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, `Lily' wrote:

> I would like to know if somebody out there who is very interested 
in the development of a spreadsheet interface or menu-driven statistical 
software based on R.  

We have put in all the hooks to enable you to use R as the engine, and
Thomas Baier has a DCOM interface to R (see the CRAN contributed section).
Erich Neuwirth has an Excel interface that uses that, which I guess he
will release fairly soon.  I have written a specific menu-based Visual
Basic application for one task.

But, if you want a menu-driven statistical system like SPSS or S-PLUS for
Windows, we have no plans to develop something like those in the
foreseeable future.  As R is a collaborative project, you are welcome to
build one and contribute it.


> Also, I would like to know if the data.entry function is already 
> available on Windows because I understand that it only works with Unix 
> which is quite rare in our place.  More power.

`works' is a bit of an over-statement, I think.  data.entry() is not in the
current Windows version (you could have looked to see), but expect
something to be there before version 1.0.  I don't really see the need for
this myself: I do the data entry/editing in my favourite tool, save to a
text file and import into R.


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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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