[R] R package

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Sat Jan 2 23:04:54 CET 2016


> On Jan 2, 2016, at 12:24 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
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> Of course there is [1], but the fact that it works on a Mac does not change the fact that R is a programming language. Until you begin the process of becoming a programmer you won't be able to make much use of R regardless of which computer or operating system you run it on. Fortunately such a transformation is doable,  but you have to believe it is possible or you won't work to make it happen... and transformation does take some work.
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> [1] https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/


All true. Some of us who are running R on Macs chose to do so at a time when Windoze machines were limited to 4G (actually 2.5 Gigs effectively) and we wanted a bit more headroom for larger objects. (I started back in the days of CP/M.)  It wasn't the possibility of having dropdown menus, but rather the fact that it was a reasonable GUI bolted on top of a Unix box.


If you want dropdown menus, then consider the Rcmdr package which runs in all of the three strains of OSes that are supported by the R Core. The RStudio effort is also a nice facility to ease the transition to "real programming".

But if you really don't want to exert any effort and simply want a "non-programming package", then buy a seat for the JMP program. (Not cheap.)

-- 
David.

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> On January 2, 2016 11:50:23 AM PST, Randy Kip Bangert <Randy.Bangert at nau.edu> wrote:
>> I really like the R package and find it extremely useful. I also find
>> the R project impossible to use as I am not a programmer. Is there a
>> version of the R package that will run on OS X?
>> _____________________________________________________
>> Randy Bangert
>> Cortez, CO 81321
>> Northern Arizona University
>> rkb at nau.edu
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David Winsemius
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