Hello all, I have just released the first per-alpha version of a new GUI project to CRAN, and am seeking some feedback from the community.
The package is called Deducer, and it is designed to be a free easy to use alternative to proprietary software such as SPSS, and Minitab. It has a menu system to do common data manipulation and data analysis tasks, and an excel-like spreadsheet in which to view and edit data frames. The goal of the project is to two fold. 1. Provide an intuitive interface so that non-technical users can learn and perform analyses without programming getting in their way. 2. Increase the efficiency of expert R users when performing common tasks by replacing hundreds of keystrokes with a few mouse clicks. Also, as much as the GUI should get in their way if they just want to do some programming. Deducer's dialogs are built on top of the Java based R console JGR. To use Deducer follow these three steps: 1. Download and install JGR from: http://jgr.markushelbig.org/Download.html 2. Open JGR and at the prompt enter: install.packages("Deducer") 3. Enter: library(Deducer) ##you should now see Data and Analysis menus Any comments, suggestions or bug reports are greatly appreciated. Thank you, Ian Fellows The version released to CRAN has the following menu features: Data manipulation: 1. Factor editor 2. Variable recoding 3. data sorting 4. data frame merging 5. transposing a data frame 6. subseting Analysis: 1. Frequencies 2. Descriptives 3. Contingency tables a. Nicely formatted tables with optional i. Percentages ii. Expected counts iii. Residuals b. Statistical tests i. chi-squared ii. likelihood ratio iii. fisher's exact iv. mantel haenszel v. kendall's tau vi. spearman's rho vii. kruskal-wallis viii. mid-p values for all exact/monte carlo tests 4. One sample tests a. T-test b. Shapiro-wilk c. Histogram/box-plot summaries 5. Two sample tests a. T-test (student and welch) b. Permutation test c. Wilcoxon d. Brunner-munzel e. Kolmogorov-smirnov f. Jitter/box-plot group comparison 6. K-sample tests a. Anova (usual and welch) b. Kruskal-wallis c. Jitter/boxplot comparison 7. Correlation a. Nicely formatted correlation matrices b. Pearson's c. Kendall's d. Spearman's e. Scatterplot paneled array f. Circle plot g. Full correlation matrix plot Known issues: On some systems, using the "packages & data" menu from within the data viewer causes the program to hang. _______________________________________________ R-SIG-GUI mailing list R-SIG-GUI@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-gui