Sounds tempting. J. Fox published 2005 in JSS an article about Rcmdr and I think with some effort we could achieve the same. I would like to offer my contribution to an article.
Regards Stefan Am Freitag 25 Juni 2010, 09:12:33 schrieb Matthieu Stigler: > 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 (vale...@uv.es > > <mailto:vale...@uv.es>) or Ruben Ledesma (rdlede...@gmail.com > > <mailto:rdlede...@gmail.com>) and they will follow the usual JSS > > reviewing procedure. Initial deadline is December 2010 with final > > versions published along 2011. > > > > === > > Jan de Leeuw; Distinguished Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of > > Statistics; > > Director: UCLA Center for Environmental Statistics (CES); > > Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical > > Software; US mail: 8125 Math Sciences Bldg, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA > > 90095-1554 phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: > > dele...@stat.ucla.edu <mailto:dele...@stat.ucla.edu> > > .mac: jdeleeuw ++++++ aim: deleeuwjan ++++++ skype: j_deleeuw > > homepages: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ++++++ http://www.cuddyvalley.org > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------- > > > > No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai > > > > http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > JSS-Announce mailing list > > jss-annou...@lists.stat.ucla.edu > > http://lists.stat.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/jss-announce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ RKWard-devel mailing list RKWard-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkward-devel
