[R-gui] Best GUI?

[John Fox]

Dear Dan,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-sig-gui-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-sig-gui-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Dan Putler
> Sent: May-21-11 2:47 PM
> To: r-sig-gui at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R-gui] Best GUI?
> 
> 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

The issue of suggested packages installed recursively is increasingly
irritating. The reason that I don't make the directly required packages
"depends" rather than "suggests" is that I don't want them loaded every time
the Rcmdr starts up. I think that I have a solution, which I'll incorporate
in the next minor version of the Rcmdr, and which I plan to release late in
the summer.

Meanwhile, if you'd like to share your script, I'd be interested in taking a
look at it, with an eye to including it on the Rcmdr installation web page.

Best,
 John

> 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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