[R] question from a beginner

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On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 06:49:00PM -0500, Ben Bolker wrote:
> 
>   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.
>

	As true as it what you've said may be, one sometimes wishes for a little GUI
functionality.
	If one __were__ to develop (say something with Tk), or any other contribution
in that sense, how could one distribute it)?
	Little tedious things like summary and histograms...

	Cheers,

	Henry L

















>   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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