Erich Neuwirth wrote:
> You really want a "closed" interface for
naive users of statistics,
> probably through a menu driven interface similar to the
analysis toolkit
> in Excel.
In the end, I would like to have ready-to-use methods for
"naive" users,
with the list of method definitions extensible by less naive
users. A
good first step seems to be an implementation of a few
exemplary
methods, to get the connection to R to work.
> The problem of course is what methods to offer. This
kind of
> integration means that from the user's point of view
you have written
> a complete statistics package. What is not on the menu
is not available
> to the user. Using an established menu package like
RCommander has the
> advantage of building on the work somebody else has
done already.
Somebody else's work seems to be under GPL in most cases,
which we
currently don't want to use. This probably also rules out
most of the
existing interface libraries and might force us to start a
separate
process and pass command line arguments.
Niklas
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