A GUI for R

SciViews-R is a suite of companion applications that provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) on top of the command-line driven environment of R. To get a rapid feeling of the look-and-feel of SciViews-R, take a look at these screenshots and this presentation. Currently, these applications run only under Windows, but...

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It is also a complete GUI API for R, written in S language and thus platform-independent. This GUI API is implemented into seven different R packages (svGUI, svIO, svViews, svMisc, svDialogs, svIDE and svSocket), all collected together in the SciViews bundle. It is intended as a starting point to reimplement the SciViews-R companion applications (or any other R GUI) as platform-independent in the future.

A manual details how to install and use SciViews-R. It contains also a technical section that explains the GUI API. The latter one is intended for developers.

SciViews-R download

Required components

	SciViews-R version 0.8-9, the suite of companion applications for Windows: binaries (setup, .exe, 12Mb) and source (.zip, 14Mb). Note that you must install R 2.2.X to run this version of SciViews-R! !!! WARNING!!! You should install SciViews-R in c:\Program files\SciViews and R 2.2.0 in C:\Program Files\R\R-2.2.0. If you install these programs in a different directory, you have to edit the 'RSciViews' and 'RSciViews (English)' shortcuts in the main SciViews directory to reflect these changes before use!!!
	SciViews R bundle version 0.8-9 (binaries, .zip, 481kb), and (sources, .tar.gz, 74kb).
	R2HTML R package (>= 1.54) is also needed. It can be downloaded from CRAN, or from here: (binaries, .zip, 527Kb), for other platforms (sources, .tar.gz, 322kb).
	The latest version of the SciViews-R manual is available here (.pdf, 2.8Mb).

Optional components

	Rcmdr R package is an optional addition. You can download it from CRAN, from the R Commander page, or from here: Windows version 1.1-2 (binaries, .zip, 747kb), for other platforms (sources, .tar.gz, 610kb). Note that you need Rcmdr >= 1.1-1 and that Rcmdr requires several additional packages available on CRAN: abind, car, effects, leaps, lmtest, multcomp, mvtnorm, relimp, rgl, sandwich, strucchange and zoo.
	tcltk2 R package provides many additional Tcl functions and Tk widgets to the 'tcltk' package in the base R distribution. It is still experimental and currently compile only under Windows: Windows version (binaries, .zip, 1.1Mb), source (sources, .tar.gz, 867kb).
	wxPython R package is an optional addition to use wxWidgets/Python dialog boxes in R. It is still experimental. You can download it from the R-wxPython page, or from here: Windows version (binaries, .zip, 401kb), for other platforms (sources, .tar.gz, 97kb).
	RSPython R package is required by wxPython to communicate with Python. Note that, in addition, you must also install Python 2.2.x and wxPython binaires 2.5.x (see the R-wxPython page for further instructions). You can download RSPython from there, or from here: Windows version (binaries, .zip, 401kb), for other platforms (sources, .tar.gz, 97kb).
	Hmisc R package is only required if you intend to export objects in LaTeX format. It can be downloaded from CRAN, or from here: (Windows binaries only, .zip, 1.9Mb). Note that Hmisc also requires 'acepack' that you can find on CRAN or here: (Windows binaries only, .zip, 60kb).