Updates to the Deducer family of packages

[Ian Fellows]

Dear R users,

Over the past month there have been a number of package updates in the deducer ecosystem. Deducer is a general purpose, extensible, data analysis GUI. It is designed to be a free easy to use alternative to proprietary data analysis software such as SPSS, JMP, and Minitab. It has a menu system to do common data manipulation and analysis tasks, and an excel-like spreadsheet in which to view and edit data frames.

More information is available in the online manual:

http://www.deducer.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.DeducerManual

And there is an intro video in youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjLToyuluSM&lr=1

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Deducer 0.6-3
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The main change in Deducer 0.6-3 is an update to the (award winning) Plot Builder GUI to make use of the new features in ggplot2 0.9-0.

New plot builder features: Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUd1MSCNy5v9i8UGkSc6tCmg&feature=player_detailpage&v=K38IkTn5M_o

New plot builder features: Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUd1MSCNy5v9i8UGkSc6tCmg&feature=player_detailpage&v=bUTu597Mf3g

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DeducerSpatial 0.4
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A Deducer plug-in for spatial data analysis. Includes The ability to plot and explore open street map and Bing satellite images. Currently there is not much here in terms of heavy data analysis, but there are some great tools for importing and exploring spatial data.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXaBT22w8G4&list=UUd1MSCNy5v9i8UGkSc6tCmg&index=3&feature=plcp

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DeducerPlugInScaling 0.1-0
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A Deducer plug-in for factor analysis, reliability analysis and discriminant analysis.

Version 0.1-0 includes some general improvements as well as a dialog for linear discriminant analysis (thanks to Helios De Rosario-Martinez).

http://www.deducer.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.LinearDiscriminantAnalysis

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DeducerExtras 1.5
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Added functionality for Deducer. This package includes additional dialogs for calculating distribution function values, cluster analysis, and more.

Version 1.5 includes some general improvements along with a new dialog implementing Friedman's test, and Kendall's W test (thanks to Helios De Rosario-Martinez).

http://www.deducer.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.RankingAnalysis

[Duleep Samuel]

Sir, will you please consider adding 3d (not depth but dimension to
the deducer graphs, thanks Samuel, IIHR, Bangalore, India

[Ian Fellows]

I had a few minutes while a simulation finished, so I made a little 3d
scatterplot gui for you. I put it up in the development version of
DeducerExtras.

.make3dScatterPlotDialog <- function(){
fun <- new(RFunction,"scatter3d")

if(!require("rgl")){
install.packages("rgl")
library("rgl")
}

var1 <- new(ParamVariable)
var1$setTitle("x")
var2 <- new(ParamVariable)
var2$setTitle("y")
var3 <- new(ParamVariable)
var3$setTitle("z")
var4 <- new(ParamVariable,"group")
var4$setRequired(FALSE)
lg <- new(ParamLogical)
lg$setTitle("Show surface")
lg$setName("surface")
lg$setDefaultValue(TRUE)
lg$setValue(FALSE)

fun$add(var1)
fun$add(var2)
fun$add(var3)
fun$add(var4)
fun$add(lg)

rfd <- new(RFunctionDialog, fun)
rfd$setLocationRelativeTo(.jnull())
rfd
}
.make3dScatterPlotDialog()$run()

Cheers,
Ian

[Duleep Samuel]

thanks for listening to newbies like me, Samuel

[Duleep Samuel]

Sir, can deducer plot the data to determine the appropriate distribution, If you include this feature it will be very useful for me, thanks Samuel,Bangalore, India

[Helios De Rosario]

There are several plots that can help determine the appropriate distribution of a variable: density plots, qq plots, etc. You can use some of the available elements in the "Statistics" tab. If you mean something more specific, you should be clearer.

I recommend you look the Deduce help page <http://www.deducer.org/pmwiki/index.php?n=Main.PlotBuilder> and its links, if you have not done it before. Wickham's book "ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis" is also a very advisable resource, if you want to understand how the different elements of ggplot2 (and hence Deducer's Plot Builder) work, and use them efficiently.

Helios

[Tom]

fitdistr() in library MASS or the package fitdistr, which expands on
the capabilities of the MASS package function, will probably do what
you need if you're working with univariate data.

To produce Q-Q plots (to visually check the goodness of fit) you can
use the qqplot() function (see http://www.statmethods.net/advgraphs/probability.html
for a simple example).

You might also check out this thread:
http://www.talkstats.com/showthread.php/4587-Which-distribution-is-best?p=11760#post11760

Regards,

Tom

On Apr 7, 7:16 am, Duleep Samuel <dksam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sir, can deducer plot the data to determine the appropriate distribution,
> If you include this feature it will be very useful for me, thanks
> Samuel,Bangalore, India
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Duleep Samuel <dksam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > thanks for listening to newbies like me, Samuel
>

> >> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Duleep Samuel <dksam...@gmail.com>

> >> wrote:
> >> > Sir, will you please consider adding 3d (not depth but dimension to
> >> > the deducer graphs, thanks Samuel, IIHR, Bangalore, India
>
> >> > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Ian Fellows <
> >> ian.fell...@stat.ucla.edu> wrote:
> >> >> Dear R users,
>
> >> >> Over the past month there have been a number of package updates in the
> >> deducer ecosystem. Deducer is a general purpose, extensible, data analysis
> >> GUI. It is designed to be a free easy to use alternative to proprietary
> >> data analysis software such as SPSS, JMP, and Minitab. It has a menu system
> >> to do common data manipulation and analysis tasks, and an excel-like
> >> spreadsheet in which to view and edit data frames.
>
> >> >> More information is available in the online manual:
>
> >> >>http://www.deducer.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.DeducerManual
>
> >> >> And there is an intro video in youtube:
>
> >> >>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjLToyuluSM&lr=1
>
> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >>                                                Deducer 0.6-3
>
> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> >> >> The main change in Deducer 0.6-3 is an update to the (award winning)
> >> Plot Builder GUI to make use of the new features in ggplot2 0.9-0.
>
> >> >> New plot builder features: Part 1
>

> >>http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUd1MSCNy5v9i8UGkSc6tCmg&feature=pl...

>
> >> >> New plot builder features: Part 2
>

> >>http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUd1MSCNy5v9i8UGkSc6tCmg&feature=pl...

>
> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >>                                            DeducerSpatial 0.4
>
> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> >> >> A Deducer plug-in for spatial data analysis. Includes The ability to
> >> plot and explore open street map and Bing satellite images. Currently there
> >> is not much here in terms of heavy data analysis, but there are some great
> >> tools for importing and exploring spatial data.
>

> >>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXaBT22w8G4&list=UUd1MSCNy5v9i8UGkSc6t...

>
> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >>                                        DeducerPlugInScaling 0.1-0
>
> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> >> >> A Deducer plug-in for factor analysis, reliability analysis and
> >> discriminant analysis.
>
> >> >> Version 0.1-0 includes some general improvements as well as a dialog
> >> for linear discriminant analysis (thanks to Helios De Rosario-Martinez).
>

> >>http://www.deducer.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.LinearDiscriminantAna...