DATA MINING Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams
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Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pointer-- For WIMPS

As argued above, graphical interfaces might be good for a while, but soon become restrictive. Nonetheless, people like to get into new tools graphically, so we will introduce some of the options.

Rcmdr is the most feature full R GUI. To start it up, simply load the package:

> library(Rcmdr)

A basic GUI interface with split screens will appear, as in Figure 1.4.

Figure 1.4: The R Commander GUI provides a simplified interface to using R. The interface consists of the top edit window and the lower execution and results window.

The top window in the GUI records the commands or functions that are to be sent to R. You can edit the commands here or else use the menus to generate the commands for you. The lower window shows the commands as they are evaluated and their output.

The GUI provides an excellent pathway into learning how to use R. Using various menus and resulting pop-up windows to build R functions can be very instructive. For some, the Rcmdr may be all that is needed for using R, allowing commands to be entered directly and then saved to script files, either as a record of processing and modelling, or else for later automatic regeneration of results.

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