[R-gui] Best GUI?

[Dan Putler]

I have used the R Commander in both marketing research and a customer 
analytics / data mining course for a number of years, and it has 
generally worked well. Running things on the OS X side (which represents 
an increasing share of the laptops owned by undergrads) is a bit more of 
a challenge since they have to access it through X11 and the 
installation is a bit more involved (the X11 Tcl/Tk libraries need to be 
installed, but they are included with the OS X R binaries). I've gone to 
using a web based installer script to install the R Commander and its 
required dependencies (installing the Rcmdr package and allowing for the 
automatic installation of required and suggested packages, including 
suggested packages of suggested packages, results in a lot of things 
being loaded that aren't needed). If you are interested, I can send that 
script along to you. One nice thing is that if you want to add 
functionality it is fairly easy to do so via Rcmdr's plug-in infrastructure.

Dan

On 05/21/2011 08:22 AM, Neuwirth Erich wrote:
> A few places seem to have good experiences with R Commander (which is (no offense intended) an SPSS like menu interface on top of R).
> If you are a Windows based shop, yo also might want to have a look at our package RExcel
> which allows to access R from within Excel and turns R Commander's menu into an Excel menu bar.
> RExcel is available at rcom.univie.ac.at
>
>
>
> On May 21, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Charles Stangor wrote:
>
>> So I'm wondering what might be a recommended R front-end for my undergraduate college students who are first learning statistics?  I'm tired of paying for SPSS but I can't ask them to learn the command lines.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Charles Stangor
>> Professor and Associate Chair
>> Department of Psychology
>> University of Maryland
>> Executive Officer, Society of Experimental Social Psychology
>> http://sites.google.com/site/charlesstangor/
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