> On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 10:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am not currently using R but I have been using S+ for sevaral years. I > > think that I fit in the category of power users, never using the GUI > > prefering the flexibility of a command line interface (CLI). In a short > > while I will try to move to R, that is if we can convince our IT people > > that installing a freeware package on a Unix server will not damaged the > > companie's network! The main reasons for which I want to move to R, at > > least give it a try, are 1) David Smith of Insightful annonced us a couple > > months ago that there is not plan to further develop the 6.0.4 Release 1 > > for Sun SPARC, SunOS 5.8, 64-bit version of S+ and as we deal with very > > large problems, addressing well over 4GB of memory, a 64 bit version is > > required and we bought that Sun machine for this sole purpose. 2) From what > > I read and heard R manages its memory a little better than S+ and is a > > little faster, non negligeable aspects when dealing with large problems. > > > > All I said so far has little to do with the title of this email. I am > > getting to it. While I am pretty happy with a CLI I was asked to evaluate > > a few statistical packages to be used by casual users in my group. One of > > the main requirements is ease of use, hence the GUI, furthermore, it will > > be a lot easier for me to support them in their analyses if we use the same > > software. > > > > I spent the two last days reading the R-FAQ and searching the R groups mail > > archives, including the R-GUI mail group and as a consequence of all this > > reading I am a bit confused. At first I gathered that there was no GUI for > > R, that R was strickly a CLI language. What brought me to that conclusion > > is the fact that on the R-project pages they refer the readers to external > > builders of GUIs like the R-Commander of John Fox, Brodgar, TeXmacs, > > SciViews etc.. On the other hand searching the mail archives for the word > > "R-GUI" yielded well over 500 hits. After reading a few tens of those I > > realized that there existed, after building R, an executable called > > "Rgui.exe", what is that? is that a GUI version of R or not? can someone > > set my bearings straight on that issue? > > > > Thanks in advance for your valuable comments, > > I will defer to others with more experience on your particular platform > queries. > > Rgui.exe is the Windows 'front end' environment for R that provides a > command line console for entering commands to the R interpreter, seeing > the textual output of those commands and for displaying the output of > plots. It supports a MDI/SDI type of interface. It does have some menus > for simple operations (like installing and updating packages) but not > for performing analyses. It is Windows OS only.
There is a very similar "GUI" under Linux that runs under the Gnome desktop environment, and I believe Gnome can run under SunOS. Emmanuel Paradis > The default R installation is a CLI interface. If you wish to add a GUI > for performing "point and click" analyses, the sources that you list > would be appropriate for consideration. If you require a cross-platform > GUI for a multi-OS environment, John Fox's RCmdr would be a very good > choice since it is built with Tcl/Tk and is not OS specific. > > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
