[R-gui] Best GUI?

[Dan Putler]

Hi John,

That would  be great. The use of the web installer does add some 
complication in the installation process, so the ability to obtain only 
the relevant packages as part of the "stock" installation would be a 
very nice addition.

Dan

On 05/21/2011 01:36 PM, John Fox wrote:
> 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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