Hi
In case you did not see it, there is a speicla issue of JSS on GUI,
maybe a good opportuinity to present rkward?
Matthieu
Le 25. 06. 10 07:10, Jan de Leeuw a écrit :
Announce
Special issue of the Journal of Statistical Software on
Graphical User Interfaces for R
Editors: Pedro Valero-Mora and Ruben Ledesma
Since it original paper from Gentleman and Ihaka was published, R has
managed to gain an ever-increasing percentage of academic and
professional statisticians but the spread of its use among novice and
occasional users of statistics have not progressed at the same pace.
Among the reasons for this relative lack of impact, the lack of a GUI
or point and click interface is one of the causes most widely
mentioned. But, however, in the last few years, this situation has
been quietly changing and a number of projects have equipped R with a
number of different GUIs, ranging from the very simple to the more
advanced, and providing the casual user with what could be still a new
source of trouble: choosing what is the GUI for him. We may have moved
from the “too few” situation to the “too many” situation
This special issue of the JSS intends as one of its main goals to
offer a general overview of the different GUIs currently available for
R. Thus, we think that somebody trying to find its way among different
alternatives may find useful it as starting point. However, we do not
want to stop in a mere listing but we want to offer a bit of a more
general discussion about what could be good GUIs for R (and how to
build them). Therefore, we want to see papers submitted that discuss
the whole concept of GUI in R, what elements it should include (or
not), how this could be achieved, and, why not, if it is actually
needed at all. Finally, despite the high success of R, this does not
mean other systems may not treasure important features that we would
like to see in R. Indeed, descriptions of these nice features that we
do not have in R but are in other systems could be another way of
driving the future progress of GUIs for R.
In summary, we envision papers for this special issue on GUIs for R in
the following categories:
- General discussions on GUIs for statistics, and for R.
- Implementing GUI toolboxes for R so others can program GUIs with them.
- R GUIs examples (with two subcategories, in the desktop or in the
cloud).
- Is there life beyond R? What features have other systems that R does
not have and why R needs them.
Papers can be sent directly to Pedro Valero-Mora ([email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>) or Ruben Ledesma ([email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>) and they will follow the usual JSS
reviewing procedure. Initial deadline is December 2010 with final
versions published along 2011.
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