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

[Stefan Rödiger]

Sounds tempting. J. Fox published 2005 in JSS an article about Rcmdr and I 
think with some effort we could achieve the same. I would like to offer my 
contribution to an article.

Regards
Stefan

Am Freitag 25 Juni 2010, 09:12:33 schrieb 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 :
> > Announce
> > 
> > Special issue of the Journal of Statistical Software on
> > 
> > Graphical User Interfaces for R
> > 
> > Editors: Pedro Valero-Mora and Ruben Ledesma
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > In summary, we envision papers for this special issue on GUIs for R in
> > the following categories:
> > 
> > - General discussions on GUIs for statistics, and for R.
> > 
> > - Implementing GUI toolboxes for R so others can program GUIs with them.
> > 
> > - R GUIs examples (with two subcategories, in the desktop or in the
> > cloud).
> > 
> > - Is there life beyond R? What features have other systems that R does
> > not have and why R needs them.
> > 
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > ===
> > Jan de Leeuw; Distinguished Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of
> > Statistics;
> > Director: UCLA Center for Environmental Statistics (CES);
> > Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical
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