I will be also using R commander with undergrad students, who actually already have some experience with R, however they have been using it more as programing language than a statistical tool and I want to get them more familiar with this aspect of R.
First, when I had my first look at R commander, I really liked it, however, when I did a little more experiments, I found it quite frustrating at times, especially by the fact that when computing a certain statistics (for example mean), you can select only one variable at the time. Are there any plans to change this, so that a number of variables could be chosen? I would also prefer to have the variables sorted the same way as they are in the data frame and and not alphabetically. If this two (what I believe minor) things could be improved, I would find R commander much more usable. Otherwise, I find it a grate package, especially when working with social sciences students. Does anyone else have similar filings. Best regards, Ales Ziberna Richard M. Heiberger pravi: > This semester for the first time I have been using the combination > of R, R Commander (John Fox's package providing a menu-driven > interface to R), and RExcel (Erich Neuwirth's package for interfacing > R with Excel). The audience is the introductory Statistics class for Business > undergradutes. The short summary is that I think the combination works well > for this audience. > > I will be talking on my experience at the useR! conference in June. I added > several additional menu items to Rcmdr for our group. I sent the January > ones (prior to the beginning of the semester) to John Fox in January. > I will send another batch of menu items, those constructed during the > semester, > as soon as the semester is complete. > > The goal is to hide most of the programming from the students. But not all > of it. I think it is very important for any user of a menu system to > have at least a rudimentary idea of the programming steps behind the menu. > Rcmdr supports this goal since it functions by generating R language > statements > from the menu selections and displaying the generated statements. > For example, I will casually change the cex or ylim of a generated plot > statement. I post the script window (generated and edited statements) from > each class to the course website. I do not post the output window. > > ______________________________________________ > [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 > ______________________________________________ [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
