Java Gui for R

JGR (pronounced 'Jaguar') is a GUI for the R programming language, licensed under the GNU General Public License

GNU General Public License

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. It is a universal and unified Graphical User Interface

Graphical user interface

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 for R.

JGR is a cross-platform stand-alone R terminal, and can be used as a more advanced substitute to the default Rgui (on Windows) or to a simple R session started from a terminal. It provides a friendly R-console complemented by a spreadsheet-like data editor and by a script editor featuring syntax highlighting

Syntax highlighting

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, autocompletion and (MS Excel-style) arguments-suggestions for entered functions, and direct command transfer.

Although unlike Rcmdr, Rattle

Rattle

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 or PMG

PMG

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, JGR provides no statistical menu-driven facilities, recently a GUI on top of JGR has been developed. Currently alpha (as of July 2009), Deducer aims to be an intuitive graphical data analysis system in some respects similar to SPSS

SPSS

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 or Minitab

Minitab

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.

See also

• Rcmdr
• Rattle
  Rattle GUI
  Rattle GUI is a package that contains a graphical user interface for the R statistical programming language....
  
   - R GUI designed for data mining
• RKWard
  RKWard
  RKWard is an easy to use, transparent frontend to the R programming language, a very powerful scripting-language with a strong focus on statistic functions...
  
   - R GUI based on the KDE libraries
• SciViews-R - uses most of the Rcmdr functionality while adding a plethora of new possibilities
• SciViews-K - cross-platform successor of SciViews-R, based on the Komodo editor
• Poor Mans Gui
• gretl
  Gretl
  gretl is an open-source statistical package, mainly for econometrics. The name is an acronym for Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library. It has a graphical user interface and can be used together with X-12-ARIMA, TRAMO/SEATS, and R. It is written in C, uses GTK as widget toolkit for...
  
   - Another open source statistical package

External links

• Official home page
• JGR on CRAN
  Cran
  Cran may refer to:*CRAN , the Comprehensive R Archive Network for the R programming language*Cran , a measurement of uncleaned herring*Cranberry, a fruit...
  
  
• Deducer on CRAN
  Cran
  Cran may refer to:*CRAN , the Comprehensive R Archive Network for the R programming language*Cran , a measurement of uncleaned herring*Cranberry, a fruit...