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Is there any front end that sit over R and execute codes - basically making usage of R further simpler? In my team we used to run lots of statistical things using R. There are some people who are from different background and don't have any knowledge of statistics. For them we are planning to make some front end using R. Using which they can run the analysis by doing some simple clicks.But before doing that I thought to check with you guys if there is any readily available front end for R

Thanks in advance

Tim
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  • Would something like Shiny suit your needs? See: http://shiny.rstudio.com/ – Stijn Oct 27 '14 at 08:56
  • Also see [rattle](http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rattle/rattle.pdf) it is also limited but has a convinient interface and has a desent set of options – David Arenburg Oct 27 '14 at 09:24

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I use R Studio, I think it might be what you need. http://www.rstudio.com/

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There is an R commander but using R like this is pointless and if you need a GUI-based statistical software better learn SPSS, Stata or other software. The power of R is in its abilities that are purely based on its command line interface. Using R GUI is like using a hammer instead of a screwdriver and R Commander provides you with <1% of the R features.

Better spend some time on learning R. There are lots of websites, online courses e.g. on Coursera or in other places etc. It takes time but it is worth spending it.

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  • Tim as per our company policy, we need to use some open source software for statistical analysis.So we can't able to use SPSS, Statistica.I found rattle in R but that is partially solving my problem – R Learner Oct 27 '14 at 08:24
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    Available open-source GUI-based statistical software has VERY limited abilities (like R Commander): it enables you to compute linear regression, t-test, ANOVA and this kind of stuff, but not much more. However, if you want, check PSPP (http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/) or Weka for machine learning (http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/). – Tim Oct 27 '14 at 08:26
  • Stata has been mentioned as if it were GUI-driven. But only some of Stata's facilities are available via the GUI. Almost no user-written extensions make use of it. Stata remains software for which knowing enough of the command language is essential for effective use. – Nick Cox Oct 27 '14 at 10:08