[R] question from a beginner

[Ben Bolker]

  No, not really.
  There are some facilities if you want to *design* GUIs for other people
to use, e.g. the Tcl/Tk extensions or Rweb (www.math.montana.edu/Rweb/),
but nothing where you can start from scratch with an arbitrary set of
data.  R is much more process-oriented: if you know what you want to do
(linear regression, ANOVA, etc.), it should be fairly easy to find the
commands that do what you want.  S-PLUS has GUI facilities, although I
haven't tried them.  I think there is a fairly strong philosophy among
most R developers that the "right" way to do things is to learn some of
the underlying foundations so that you can really understand what you are
doing.  It is easier to go wrong with GUIs -- although there are lots of
confounding factors, and GUIs can be designed in better or worse ways.

  Ben

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Cheng, Yiling wrote:

> Dear there,
>    R is pretty flexible and powerful. I wonder whether there are any GUI
> programs to
>  do basic statistic work by just clicking menu and selecting procedure.
>    Thank you for your time.
> Yiling
>
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