[R] Dream of a wiki GUI for R

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Hi ohri:

Thanks for your introduction of knol. I am testing it now. I can't
google out the "Google Docs plugin for sending R output directly to
the Docs". Is it something like R(D)COM?

My point is to adopt html FORM elements (input boxes, checks,...) into
any wiki platform. R-php, R-cgi or others now provide convenient
server sides. The aim is scarcely to teach R or statistical
procedures, but to help lay end users to reach transparent statistical
results without bothering who, or whether R, or how it is doing the
server side job.

Google docs' FORM "file-type" feeds result into a google spreadsheet.
If such a form and its result page could be implemented in a wiki page
side by side, with R functions support,  it is my dream.

Does anybody see a wiki page with an interacting input box? or with
javascript or any scripts to be collaborated in a wiki style?

Xiaoxu

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Ajay ohri <ohri2007 at gmail.com> 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 However  wikis are a bit outdated.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 itself is badly outdated compared to the software itself.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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> --
> Regards,
>
> Ajay Ohri
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