Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Content-how the chapters fit together
- 1 A brief introduction to R
- 2 Styles of data analysis
- 3 Statistical models
- 4 A review of inference concepts
- 5 Regression with a single predictor
- 6 Multiple linear regression
- 7 Exploiting the linear model framework
- 8 Generalized linear models and survival analysis
- 9 Time series models
- 10 Multi-level models and repeated measures
- 11 Tree-based classification and regression
- 12 Multivariate data exploration and discrimination
- 13 Regression on principal component or discriminant scores
- 14 The R system – additional topics
- 15 Graphs in R
- Epilogue
- References
- Index of R symbols and functions
- Index of terms
- Index of authors
- Plate Section
14 - The R system – additional topics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2013
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Content-how the chapters fit together
- 1 A brief introduction to R
- 2 Styles of data analysis
- 3 Statistical models
- 4 A review of inference concepts
- 5 Regression with a single predictor
- 6 Multiple linear regression
- 7 Exploiting the linear model framework
- 8 Generalized linear models and survival analysis
- 9 Time series models
- 10 Multi-level models and repeated measures
- 11 Tree-based classification and regression
- 12 Multivariate data exploration and discrimination
- 13 Regression on principal component or discriminant scores
- 14 The R system – additional topics
- 15 Graphs in R
- Epilogue
- References
- Index of R symbols and functions
- Index of terms
- Index of authors
- Plate Section
Summary
Graphical user interfaces to R
The R Commander (Rcmdr) will be the main focus, with brief reference to other GUIs. Subsection 1.1.1 mentioned the usefulness of the R Commander for data input. Especially for novices or infrequent users of R, a GUI can be similarly helpful for creating simple graphs, for statistical testing, for simple tabulation and summarization, and for fitting standard models. The final subsection describes how the function gui() (fgui package) can be used to create simple GUIs.
Some tasks are best done from the command line, and some from a GUI, with the balance likely to change in favor of the command line as familiarity with R increases. The two modes of use can be mixed. All the GUIs discussed here make available the commands used by R, for inspection and/or modification and/or for audit trail purposes. The user can examine the help page for the relevant function(s), modify the code as required, and re-execute it.
In addition to the R Commander, note:
• JGR (Java Graphics for R) and the Deducer GUI that is designed to work with JGR.
• The rattle GUI gives access to a range of multivariate graphics, regression and classification routines.
• A more limited alternative to the R Commander is pmg (Poor Man's GUI).
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- Data Analysis and Graphics Using RAn Example-Based Approach, pp. 427 - 471Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010