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[Ko-Kang Wang]

Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:

> On Wed, 3 May 2000, Ko-Kang Wang wrote:
>
> >> S-plus, and to R after learning about it the week after. The reason I
> >> mention this is the seemingly irrational urge many have to have drop-down
> >> menus, even though the path to what you need is considerably longer than
> >> just typing. If the compendium is able to show that the things you need
> >> are not at all far away, and much more logical than drop-down menus, I
> >> think many will be drawn towards R.
> >>
> >
> >What exactly do you mean?  Do you mean R should be GUI (Graphical User Interface)?
>
> Not at all! On the contrary (almost). If you show in the compendium how
> easy it is to read your data from file, perform an lm() on command line,
> they will realize that using lots and lots of drop down menus are simply
> not rational. However, you have to guide them through everything, step by
> step. (That being said, there are times where a GUI is not a bad thing,
> take GIMP for example).

Ah I see what you mean.
I have to agree with you on GIMP, XFigs is another good one!

>
>
> Best,
>
> Kjetil
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 Ko-Kang Wang
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 Computer Science/Statistics Double Major
 University of Auckland
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