[R-gui] Best GUI?

[Charles Stangor]

Right, I tried to load commander from R and it downloaded tens and tens of 
files.


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From: "Dan Putler" <dan.putler at sauder.ubc.ca>
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 8:29 PM
To: "John Fox" <jfox at mcmaster.ca>
Cc: <r-sig-gui at r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R-gui] Best GUI?

> 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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