On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 15:27:10 -0500 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 05/12/2014 3:11 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 12:54:17 -0500 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On 05/12/2014 12:34 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have been using Deducer for the past year for my very basic 100-level
> > > > introductory statistics classes for students from other disciplines. I
> > > > really have liked using it for this specific purpose (takes me out of
> > > > JMP!). However, over the past few months, issues have started cropping
> > > > up with (some, not all) Windows 7 machines (which I am personally not
> > > > very familiar with). Most of these problems are cleared when I manually
> > > > and individually install all the required packages one by one. However,
> > > > this is tedious to do for me, an instructor, for each and every
> > > > student, and also means that the main appeal of Deducer: one-click
> > > > install and GUI is lost.
> > > >
> > > > I have also noticed that Deducer's webpage mentions that it works on R
> > > > 2.10.0 or greater. However, it is not clear if this project is
> > > > maintained or not, so therefore, before I invest more time in using
> > > > this for teaching, I was wondering if the software is being maintained
> > > > and developed.
> > > >
> > > > I would like to say that Deducer works as advertised and no hiccups on
> > > > Fedora 20 Linux for R 3.1.2.
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks and best wishes,
> > > > Ranjan
> > > >
> > > >
> > > A question like this could only be answered by the maintainer of the
> > > package. Have you tried writing there? (You might already know the
> > > answer if you've reported the "issues" to them.)
> >
> > Thanks very much! I agree. However, I can not tell who the
> > developer/maintainer is, from the www.deducer.org webpage. There are
> > several questions, etc on the associated Google help group (on several
> > topics) but no answers. So I have been "fearing the worst," which is a
> > pity: much as I detest this GUI stuff for everything for my personal use,
> > this was a good (and better) option for these specific classes than JMP.
> > Besides, at least 20% of the students would figure out from the GUI that it
> > was far easier and more efficient to simply write out the commands than to
> > submit using the GUI interface, and the GUI would inform them what they
> > could write (and modify). I came to Deducer after looking at a lot of other
> > related software.
> >
> > Well, I guess I was hoping that the developer was lurking here and he or
> > somebody else who knew could answer.
>
> Since there is an associated R package, you can find the maintainer's
> email using
>
> maintainer("Deducer")
>
> in R. That gives me
>
> "Ian Fellows <i...@fellstat.com>"
>
Thanks to both you and Sarah Goslee!! I completely forgot about this aspect of
R packages. This was so dumb of me! I was looking all over the web trying to
figure this out and forgot about the most basic feature.
Thanks again!
Best wishes,
Ranjan
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