[R] Dream of a wiki GUI for R

[Xiaoxu LI]

I should have read the following page on R_Extension_for_MediaWiki
http://mars.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/mediawiki/sk/index.php/R_Extension_for_MediaWiki_v0.06#New_tags_and_attributes

Has anybody seen an <Rform>...</Rform> online example page in English?

I really wish wiki.r-project.org be equipped with parameter input
interfaces and convenient R codes submit choices. Any donated Rweb,
Rcgi or other R server can be the redirected server-side and the
professional security burden can be avoided for wiki.r-project.org


LI Xiaoxu

School of Arts and Social Sciences,
Shenzhen Graduate School,
Peking Univ.(Shenzhen Campus)
China

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Philippe Grosjean
<phgrosjean at sciviews.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Just to add to what Ajay said: the http://wiki.r-project.org does not
> execute R code from within wiki pages. This is a choice for security
> reasons. However, there are ways to get R code from R wiki pages and run it
> in R: http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:misc:wikicode
>
> Also, there is a discussion about integrating Sweave in wiki pages:
> http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=developers:latex2wiki.
>
> If someone would like to start a "teaching stats with R" topic on the R wiki
> and organize a section for this, he is more than welcome to make a proposal
> (send it to me).
>
> Best,
>
> Philippe Grosjean
>
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> Ajay ohri wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tobias,
>>
>> It makes sense from a practical view point. SAS Institute funds its own
>> wiki
>> at www.sascommunity.org  The catch is they have editorial influence and
>> can
>> use offerings there for commercial purposes.
>>
>>
>> The surprising thing is you can actually create a wiki in wikipedia
>> itself.
>> Just adopt a convention lets say Rproj for beginning of each wiki page.
>>
>> Note this would mean volunteers parsing the back and forth of messages
>> into
>> structure ( maybe it exists already)
>>
>> However  wikis are a bit outdated. The latest is knol.google.com as it
>> gives
>> you the right to make document editable, or allow comments, or even what
>> kind of license you want content to be shared. The catch again is its
>> owned
>> by Google , the big company.
>>
>> Other options from Google include Google Docs as well as Google Sites.You
>> can even create bulk Google Docs from a writely email that your
>> docs.google.com account gives you, and just last week someone created a
>> Google Docs plugin for sending R output directly to the Docs.
>>
>> As you may have noticed and I have pointed out once the R -project website
>> itself is badly outdated compared to the software itself. The official R
>> wiki  of course is here
>> http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php
>>
>> So these are the options - noting that email groups are more easy to use
>> and
>>  addictive , though not the best for collobrative knowledge storage over a
>> period of time.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ajay
>>
>> www.decisionstats.com
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Tobias Verbeke
>> <tobias.verbeke at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am just writing a draft to introduce confidence intervals of various
>>>>
>>>> "effect sizes" to my students. Surely, I'll recommend the package
>>>> MBESS in R. Currently, it means I have to recommend R's interface at
>>>> first. As a statistics teacher in a dept of psychology, I often have
>>>> to reply why not to teach SPSS. Psychologists and their students hate
>>>> to memorize codes, or even to call any function with a list of
>>>> parameters. I know if I have an online R platform with a wiki
>>>> html-form design, I can bypass the function calls and headache
>>>> parameters to expose the power of R. Rcmdr and its plugins help some,
>>>> but students like to remember just one menu structure in the SPSS
>>>> textbook. A wiki interface means they can search and find a complete
>>>> example in psychology, with self-explained parameter inputs and
>>>> outputs.
>>>>
>>>> Do I actually dream a wikipedia with front forms and back R? Most R
>>>> fans are wiki fans, but not vice verse. So, I think I should talk my
>>>> dream here rather than at wikipedia. If you know it had been a
>>>> practice rather than an idea, please tell me where to write my
>>>> teaching interface.
>>>>
>>> Some have had similar dreams:
>>>
>>> http://ideas.repec.org/p/hum/wpaper/sfb649dp2008-030.html
>>> http://www.r-project.org/user-2006/Slides/Klinke.pdf
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.r-project.org/user-2006/Abstracts/Klinke+Schmerbach+Troitschanskaia.pdf
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Tobias
>>>
>>>
>>> LI, Xiaoxu
>>>>
>>>> School of Arts and Social Sciences,
>>>> Shenzhen Graduate School,
>>>> Peking Univ.(Shenzhen Campus)
>>>> China
>>>>
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