-----Original Message-----
From: jfox at mcmaster.ca
Sent: Sun, 17 May 2015 08:15:14 -0400
To: jrkrideau at inbox.com, gjkruse at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [R] R Commander qcc
Dear John and Greg,
As John says, even with the about 40 plugin packages that are on CRAN
(the R package archive network), the Rcmdr covers only a small fraction
of what's available in base R and the thousands of CRAN packages.
As it turns out, however, there's an Rcmdr quality-control plugin that
may meet Greg's needs, RcmdrPlugin.qual
<http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RcmdrPlugin.qual/index.html>. You
might check that out. Install it via the command
install.packages("RcmdrPlugin.qual") at the R > command prompt, and then
either load it via the Rcmdr Tools menu or directly via
library(RcmdrPlugin.qual).
More generally, the names of most Rcmdr plugins begin with
"RcmdrPlugin.". If you go to the alphbetical CRAN packages list at
<http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_by_name.html>
and search for "RcmdrPlugin.", you'll see them. Searching for "Rcmdr"
will turn up a few more.
I hope this helps,
John
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John Fox, Professor
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
On Sun, 17 May 2015 02:51:30 -0800
John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote:
Welcome to R and the R-help list.
If I am not misunderstanding you, you expect use the qcc package from
within the Rcmdr GUI.
I have never really used RCommander, though I played around with it a
few years ago, but I don't believe it can call qcc directly. I
'think' you have the choice of using qcc from a command line interface
or possibly installing a plug-in for Rcmder. Have a look at this link
http://decisionstats.com/2011/01/27/r-commander-plugins-20-and-growing/
BTW you might also be interested in this link
http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/quality-control-in-r.html for other
approaches to control charts.
While a good Gui like Rcmdr is useful you really will not get the full
power of R with a Gui. It can be a bit intimidating to use a command
interface if you are not used to one but it is by far the best way. It
may not seem it but it is much more efficient in the longer term to go
to a command-line interface.
There is also the issue of whether there is an integration for the
package and your Gui. Luckily, it looks like there is a Rcmdr plugin
for qcc but there are probably 100's, or more likely, 1000's of packages
with such a plug-in and you cannot capitalize on them other than with a
command-line approach.
You can use R by typing commands into the R-GUI (assuming you are using
Windows) or by typing in the terminal under Linux but this does not work
well. Most/all R users do all their writing in a text editor or
Integrated Development Environment (IDE). There are some fierce wars
over which editor or IDE is best. Here are a couple of links about the
issue. Text Editors and IDEs
http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Best-R-text-editors-td903450.html and