The R system – additional topics
John H. Maindonald, Willard John Braun · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2013
Graphical user interfaces to R The R Commander ( Rcmdr ) will be the main focus, with brief reference to other GUIs. Subsection 1.1.1 mentioned the usefulness of the R Commander for data input. Especially for novices or infrequent users of R, a GUI can be similarly helpful for creating simple graphs, for statistical testing, for simple tabulation and summarization, and for fitting standard models. The final subsection describes how the function gui() ( fgui package) can be used to create simple GUIs. Some tasks are best done from the command line, and some from a GUI, with the balance likely to change in favor of the command line as familiarity with R increases. The two modes of use can be mixed. All the GUIs discussed here make available the commands used by R, for inspection and/or modification and/or for audit trail purposes. The user can examine the help page for the relevant function(s), modify the code as required, and re-execute it. In addition to the R Commander, note: • JGR (Java Graphics for R) and the Deducer GUI that is designed to work with JGR . • The rattle GUI gives access to a range of multivariate graphics, regression and classification routines. • A more limited alternative to the R Commander is pmg (Poor Man's GUI). […]