On Dec 5, 2014, at 12:11 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.
You appear unfamiliar with the maintainer function:
> maintainer("Deducer")
[1] "Ian Fellows <i...@fellstat.com>"
>
>
> Well, I guess I was hoping that the developer was lurking here and he or
> somebody else who knew could answer.
>
> Thanks again for responding!
>
> Best wishes,
> Ranjan
>
> __
David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA
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