pat_primate (sent by Nabble.com <lists <at> nabble.com> writes:
> I know that this isn't really a R help question, but I am a psychology student at TRU (tru.ca) and my psych > department is going to be switching statistical software in the near future. I thought this might be a good > oppertunity to advocate for open source if an acceptable option is available. I have looked around a bit > and R seems to be the most stable and mature (not to mention powerful) open source statistical program > going. The only downfall is that the school has been using spss for years and would demand a similarly user > friendly GUI based statistical program to replace it. I have looked at a few of the R guis and most of them > look like they are just command line interfaces in pretty desktop windows and not really a gui like spss. If > anyone knows of any stable, userfriendly and robust guis for R that would be similar to using spss please > let me know, as I would love for my scho > ol to start embracing open source software. I too am trying to move my organisation from SPSS to R. While it is well worth considering the various command line vs GUI arguments, I appreciate that an easy to use GUI is important when weaning oneself and others from a system such as SPSS. I would suggest you have a look at R-Commander. It is available simply as an R package from CRAN (Rcmdr). It has a familiar, menu-driven interface for a good range of data manipulation and analysis tasks, but without losing the power of the command line option. It is actively developed, and John Fox is very approachable. Perhaps most importantly, it is extensible, so you can tailor it to suit, and add functions to the menu system. Michael Bibo Queensland Health [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
