[rkward-devel] [JSS-Announce] Special issue on GUI's for R

[Matthieu Stigler]

Hi

In case you did not see it, there is a speicla issue of JSS on GUI, 
maybe a good opportuinity to present rkward?

Matthieu

Le 25. 06. 10 07:10, Jan de Leeuw a écrit :
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> Announce
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> Special issue of the Journal of Statistical Software on
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> Graphical User Interfaces for R
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> Editors: Pedro Valero-Mora and Ruben Ledesma
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> 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
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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 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.
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> In summary, we envision papers for this special issue on GUIs for R in 
> the following categories:
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> - General discussions on GUIs for statistics, and for R.
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> - Implementing GUI toolboxes for R so others can program GUIs with them.
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> - R GUIs examples (with two subcategories, in the desktop or in the 
> cloud).
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> - Is there life beyond R? What features have other systems that R does 
> not have and why R needs them.
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> Papers can be sent directly to Pedro Valero-Mora (valerop at uv.es 
> <mailto:valerop at uv.es>) or Ruben Ledesma (rdledesma at gmail.com 
> <mailto:rdledesma at gmail.com>) and they will follow the usual JSS 
> reviewing procedure. Initial deadline is December 2010 with final 
> versions published along 2011.
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