[R-gui] Rattle 2.1.57 released - GUI for Data Mining in R

[Graham Williams]

Rattle provides a Gnome (RGtk2) based interface to R functionality for
data mining. The aim is to provide a simple and intuitive interface
that allows a user to quickly load data from a CSV file (or via ODBC),
transform and explore the data, and build and evaluate models, knowing
little about R. All R commands are logged and available for the user,
as a tool to then begin interacting directly with R itself, if so
desired. Rattle also exports a number of utility functions and the
graphical user interface does not need to be run to deploy these.

Rattle is in daily use in a number of real world data mining projects,
including many at the Australian Taxation Office.

Since the previous release of Rattle 2.1.8 on CRAN (Rattle is also
available from rattle.togaware.com):

* Extensive rework of the graphics/plotting component, including
  addition of missing value correlation plots.

* Evaluation plots have been enhanced for easier comparison of models.

* Data exploration enhanced through use of rggobi

Some features of Rattle:

* Support for a number of popular data mining approaches: decision
  trees (rpart), randomForest, SVM (kernlab), and boosting (gbm).

* Model evaluation using ROCR and specially devised Risk Charts.

* The project is hosted at code.google.com/p/rattle/

* Rattle runs on GNU/Linux, Mac/OSX, and MS/Windows.

Regards,
Graham Williams