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Hi<br>
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In case you did not see it, there is a speicla issue of JSS on GUI,
maybe a good opportuinity to present rkward?<br>
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Matthieu<br>
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Le 25. 06. 10 07:10, Jan de Leeuw a écrit :
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lang="EN-US">Special issue of the Journal of Statistical Software on <br>
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Graphical User Interfaces for R <br>
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Editors: Pedro Valero-Mora and Ruben Ledesma <br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span>Since it original paper from Gentleman and Ihaka
was published, R has managed to gain an ever-increasing percentage of
academic and professional statisticians but the spread of its use among
novice and occasional users of statistics have not progressed at the
same pace. Among the reasons for this relative lack of impact, the lack
of a GUI or point and click interface is one of the causes most widely
mentioned. But, however, in the last few years, this situation has been
quietly changing and a number of projects have equipped R with a number
of different GUIs, ranging from the very simple to the more advanced,
and providing the casual user with what could be still a new source of
trouble: choosing what is the GUI for him. We may have moved from the
“too few” situation to the “too many” situation <br>
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This special issue of the JSS intends as one of its main goals to offer
a general overview of the different GUIs currently available for R.
Thus, we think that somebody trying to find its way among different
alternatives may find useful it as starting point. However, we do not
want to stop in a mere listing but we want to offer a bit of a more
general discussion about what could be good GUIs<span> </span>for R
(and how to build them). Therefore, we want to see papers submitted
that discuss the whole concept of GUI in R, what elements it should
include (or not), how this could be achieved, and, why not, if it is
actually needed at all. Finally, despite the high success of R, this
does not mean other systems may not treasure important features that we
would like to see in R. Indeed, descriptions of these nice features
that we do not have in R but are in other systems could be another way
of driving the future progress of GUIs for R. <br>
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In summary, we envision papers for this special issue on GUIs for R in
the following categories: <br>
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- General discussions on GUIs for statistics, and for R. <br>
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- Implementing GUI toolboxes for R so others can program GUIs with
them. <br>
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- R GUIs examples (with two subcategories, in the desktop or in the
cloud). <br>
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- Is there life beyond R? What features have other systems that R does
not have and why R needs them. <br>
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Papers can be sent directly to Pedro Valero-Mora (</span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:valerop@uv.es"
style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span lang="EN-US">valerop@uv.es</span></a><span
lang="EN-US">) or Ruben Ledesma (</span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:rdledesma@gmail.com"
style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><span lang="EN-US">rdledesma@gmail.com</span></a><span
lang="EN-US">) and they will follow the usual JSS reviewing procedure.
Initial deadline is December 2010 with final versions published along
2011.</span></p>
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Statistics;
<div>Director: UCLA Center for Environmental Statistics (CES);<br>
Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical
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