[R] Dream of a wiki GUI for R

[Philippe Grosjean]

Hello,

Just to add to what Ajay said: the http://wiki.r-project.org does not 
execute R code from within wiki pages. This is a choice for security 
reasons. However, there are ways to get R code from R wiki pages and run 
it in R: http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:misc:wikicode

Also, there is a discussion about integrating Sweave in wiki pages: 
http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=developers:latex2wiki.

If someone would like to start a "teaching stats with R" topic on the R 
wiki and organize a section for this, he is more than welcome to make a 
proposal (send it to me).

Best,

Philippe Grosjean

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Ajay ohri wrote:
> Hi Tobias,
> 
> It makes sense from a practical view point. SAS Institute funds its own wiki
> at www.sascommunity.org  The catch is they have editorial influence and can
> use offerings there for commercial purposes.
> 
> 
> The surprising thing is you can actually create a wiki in wikipedia itself.
> Just adopt a convention lets say Rproj for beginning of each wiki page.
> 
> Note this would mean volunteers parsing the back and forth of messages into
> structure ( maybe it exists already)
> 
> However  wikis are a bit outdated. The latest is knol.google.com as it gives
> you the right to make document editable, or allow comments, or even what
> kind of license you want content to be shared. The catch again is its owned
> by Google , the big company.
> 
> Other options from Google include Google Docs as well as Google Sites.You
> can even create bulk Google Docs from a writely email that your
> docs.google.com account gives you, and just last week someone created a
> Google Docs plugin for sending R output directly to the Docs.
> 
> As you may have noticed and I have pointed out once the R -project website
> itself is badly outdated compared to the software itself. The official R
> wiki  of course is here
> http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php
> 
> So these are the options - noting that email groups are more easy to use and
>  addictive , though not the best for collobrative knowledge storage over a
> period of time.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ajay
> 
> www.decisionstats.com
> 
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Tobias Verbeke <tobias.verbeke at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am just writing a draft to introduce confidence intervals of various
>>> "effect sizes" to my students. Surely, I'll recommend the package
>>> MBESS in R. Currently, it means I have to recommend R's interface at
>>> first. As a statistics teacher in a dept of psychology, I often have
>>> to reply why not to teach SPSS. Psychologists and their students hate
>>> to memorize codes, or even to call any function with a list of
>>> parameters. I know if I have an online R platform with a wiki
>>> html-form design, I can bypass the function calls and headache
>>> parameters to expose the power of R. Rcmdr and its plugins help some,
>>> but students like to remember just one menu structure in the SPSS
>>> textbook. A wiki interface means they can search and find a complete
>>> example in psychology, with self-explained parameter inputs and
>>> outputs.
>>>
>>> Do I actually dream a wikipedia with front forms and back R? Most R
>>> fans are wiki fans, but not vice verse. So, I think I should talk my
>>> dream here rather than at wikipedia. If you know it had been a
>>> practice rather than an idea, please tell me where to write my
>>> teaching interface.
>>>
>> Some have had similar dreams:
>>
>> http://ideas.repec.org/p/hum/wpaper/sfb649dp2008-030.html
>> http://www.r-project.org/user-2006/Slides/Klinke.pdf
>>
>> http://www.r-project.org/user-2006/Abstracts/Klinke+Schmerbach+Troitschanskaia.pdf
>>
>> HTH,
>> Tobias
>>
>>
>> LI, Xiaoxu
>>> School of Arts and Social Sciences,
>>> Shenzhen Graduate School,
>>> Peking Univ.(Shenzhen Campus)
>>> China
>>>
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