[R-gui] Status of the R-GUI

[John Fox]

Dear Carter,

At 08:28 AM 9/11/2003 -0700, Carter Cheng wrote:
>Thanks everyone for the prompt replies. I did actually
>check out R-Commander before but I was somewhat
>concerned that it might have stability issues. Has
>anyone had experience deploying this in a work
>environment?

Since Rcmdr is relatively new, I assume that no one has experience yet 
using it in teaching a class. That will change shortly, at least in my 
case. I have done a fair amount of testing, mostly under Windows, and from 
the feedback that I've received, I know that quite a few people have tried 
it out under a variety of OSs.

>I guess I am curious if it's mature
>enough to serve as a replacement for the SPSS system.
>Is it as full featured as the SPSS GUI?

This depends on what you intend to use the GUI for. Rcmdr is meant 
primarily for basic statistics courses. It is definitely not as 
full-featured as the GUI for SPSS. If you haven't yet done so, take a look 
at the menu tree on the Rcmdr page at 
<http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/index>. The Rcmdr GUI 
is, however, extensible, so you could, in principle, add menus and dialogs.

I hope that this answers your questions.
  John


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