From edd at debian.org  Sat Mar  4 18:51:42 2006
From: edd at debian.org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 11:51:42 -0600
Subject: [Rd] R does not have friendly GUI (PR#8656)
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On 4 March 2006 at 11:20, Romain Francois wrote:
| Le 04.03.2006 09:18, towsonu2003 at gmail.com a ?crit :
| > Full_Name: 
| > Version: 2.1.1
| > OS: Linux (Ubuntu 5.10)
| > Submission from: (NULL) (136.160.174.71)
| >
| > R does not have a friendly gui from where all functions can be accessed by
| > "point-and-click". Existing one I could try (tk) is too simple. 
| >
| > The friendly gui should also include a spreadsheet-like data-viewer as well as a
| > data-output (exportable tables) and a graphics-output modules (the latter
| > already exits).

$ apt-get install r-cran-rcmdr
$ R
$ > library(Rcmdr)

is pretty close.

| Do you also want to be able to type :
| PROC UNIVARIATE ....
| in R ?

Exactly -- and I am missing the feature where R is doing my home work for me.
The sequence

	> library(timemachine)
	> timemachineGo(highschool)
	> timemachineDo(getBetterMarks)

fails. Any idea why?

| What you described is *so* not a bug. You have not tried hard enough.

Well put, Romain!

Regards, Dirk

-- 
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. 
                                                  -- Thomas A. Edison



[Rd] R does not have friendly GUI (PR#8656)
Dirk Eddelbuettel