Erich Neuwirth wrote:
You really want a "closed" interface for naive users of statistics, probably through a menu driven interface similar to the analysis toolkit in Excel.
In the end, I would like to have ready-to-use methods for "naive" users, with the list of method definitions extensible by less naive users. A good first step seems to be an implementation of a few exemplary methods, to get the connection to R to work.
The problem of course is what methods to offer. This kind of integration means that from the user's point of view you have written a complete statistics package. What is not on the menu is not available to the user. Using an established menu package like RCommander has the advantage of building on the work somebody else has done already.
Somebody else's work seems to be under GPL in most cases, which we currently don't want to use. This probably also rules out most of the existing interface libraries and might force us to start a separate process and pass command line arguments.
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