R help - Sep 2008 - Dream of a wiki GUI for R

Dear R fans ( and wiki fans),

I am just writing a draft to introduce confidence intervals of various
"effect sizes" to my students. Surely, I'll recommend the package
MBESS in R. Currently, it means I have to recommend R's interface at
first. As a statistics teacher in a dept of psychology, I often have
to reply why not to teach SPSS. Psychologists and their students hate
to memorize codes, or even to call any function with a list of
parameters. I know if I have an online R platform with a wiki
html-form design, I can bypass the function calls and headache
parameters to expose the power of R. Rcmdr and its plugins help some,
but students like to remember just one menu structure in the SPSS
textbook. A wiki interface means they can search and find a complete
example in psychology, with self-explained parameter inputs and
outputs.

Do I actually dream a wikipedia with front forms and back R? Most R
fans are wiki fans, but not vice verse. So, I think I should talk my
dream here rather than at wikipedia. If you know it had been a
practice rather than an idea, please tell me where to write my
teaching interface.

LI, Xiaoxu

School of Arts and Social Sciences,
Shenzhen Graduate School,
Peking Univ.(Shenzhen Campus)
China

Hi,
> I am just writing a draft to introduce confidence intervals of various
> "effect sizes" to my students. Surely, I'll recommend the
package
> MBESS in R. Currently, it means I have to recommend R's interface at
> first. As a statistics teacher in a dept of psychology, I often have
> to reply why not to teach SPSS. Psychologists and their students hate
> to memorize codes, or even to call any function with a list of
> parameters. I know if I have an online R platform with a wiki
> html-form design, I can bypass the function calls and headache
> parameters to expose the power of R. Rcmdr and its plugins help some,
> but students like to remember just one menu structure in the SPSS
> textbook. A wiki interface means they can search and find a complete
> example in psychology, with self-explained parameter inputs and
> outputs.
> 
> Do I actually dream a wikipedia with front forms and back R? Most R
> fans are wiki fans, but not vice verse. So, I think I should talk my
> dream here rather than at wikipedia. If you know it had been a
> practice rather than an idea, please tell me where to write my
> teaching interface.
Some have had similar dreams:

http://ideas.repec.org/p/hum/wpaper/sfb649dp2008-030.html
http://www.r-project.org/user-2006/Slides/Klinke.pdf
http://www.r-project.org/user-2006/Abstracts/Klinke+Schmerbach+Troitschanskaia.pdf


HTH,
Tobias
> LI, Xiaoxu
> 
> School of Arts and Social Sciences,
> Shenzhen Graduate School,
> Peking Univ.(Shenzhen Campus)
> China
> 
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