By: greg laden

greg laden — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:25:14 +0000

Yes, but don’t get too excited.One is called “S” and it is a commercial product that wouldn’t suck if it didn’t cost so much. But, S does everything R does. I’ve used it to good effect, but in the end I found it no easier than using straight R.(The S people have a great data mining application and some other stuff that is good, but the S package is really just a way of getting people who need a GUI to give you lots of money).There is a very small and unassuming GUI that lets you do simple stuff, and is basically a peer reviewed paper in computer science that happens to be a GUI for R. (Or at least that is how I interpret it) by John Fox, called R Commander. It works very nicely and lets you do a subset of R things. I don’t use it, but I did test it out and it seems to work. You can get it here:http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/there is an R interface for Gnumeric. Gnumeric is, of course, the world’s coolest spreadheet. Makes Excel look like a kindergarten project. The last time I checked, this was not ready for prime time, but I think it may be working better these days . I’m just starting a new analysis so I may play with it, and if it is any good you can be sure I’ll blog on it.There are a number of other “R GUI” projects, but be warned: To R users, EMACS is a GUI. Uffda. Se the R-Cran site GUI page:http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/

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By: greg laden