Dear there, R is pretty flexible and powerful. I wonder whether there are any GUI programs to do basic statistic work by just clicking menu and selecting procedure. Thank you for your time. Yiling -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
No, not really. There are some facilities if you want to *design* GUIs for other people to use, e.g. the Tcl/Tk extensions or Rweb (www.math.montana.edu/Rweb/), but nothing where you can start from scratch with an arbitrary set of data. R is much more process-oriented: if you know what you want to do (linear regression, ANOVA, etc.), it should be fairly easy to find the commands that do what you want. S-PLUS has GUI facilities, although I haven't tried them. I think there is a fairly strong philosophy among most R developers that the "right" way to do things is to learn some of the underlying foundations so that you can really understand what you are doing. It is easier to go wrong with GUIs -- although there are lots of confounding factors, and GUIs can be designed in better or worse ways. Ben On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Cheng, Yiling wrote:> Dear there, > R is pretty flexible and powerful. I wonder whether there are any GUI > programs to > do basic statistic work by just clicking menu and selecting procedure. > Thank you for your time. > Yiling > > -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- > r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html > Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" > (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ >-- 318 Carr Hall bolker at zoo.ufl.edu Zoology Department, University of Florida http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker Box 118525 (ph) 352-392-5697 Gainesville, FL 32611-8525 (fax) 352-392-3704 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Ben Bolker wrote, in reply to Yiling Chen's inquiry about whether there were GUI-driven stat.s programs:> No, not really.No doubt it all depends on exactly what one has in mind, but I should have said that there *many* programs that offered access to statistical procedures via "point and click" methods, from Excel upwards through SPSS and on to S-Plus. Which you recommend should depend on the needs of the audience. Even Excel, in spite of its well-documented defects, has a place; as a way of luring generalist students into getting to grips with the nuts and bolts of statistics it is unrivalled, since knowledge of Excel is clearly a marketable skill in its own right. For a slightly different student audience I think DataDesk is very attractive. And for fine control over the appearance of charts S-Plus's GUI mode is superb. I should be very interested to hear, for example, of ways in which R, or S-Plus in command-line mode, can be made to control chart grids in the way that the S-Plus GUI can. Julian Wells OU Business School The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK7 6AA United Kingdom +44 1908 654658 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._