I have just finished updating my reviews of graphical user interfaces for the R language. These include BlueSky Statistics, jamovi, JASP, R AnalyticFlow, R Commander, R-Instat, Rattle, and RKward. The permanent link to the article that summarizes it all is https://r4stats.com/articles/software-reviews/r-gui-comparison/. I list the highlights below as this post to reach all the blog aggregators. … The post R GUI Reviews Updated first appeared on r4stats.com ..read more

BlueSky Statistics is a graphical user interface for the powerful R language. On July 10, 2024, the BlueskyStatistics.com website said: “…As the BlueSky Statistics version 10 product evolves, we will continue to work on orchestrating the necessary logistics to make the BlueSky Statistics version 10.x application available as an open-source project. This will be done … The post BlueSky Statistics Version 10 is Not Open Source first appeared on r4stats.com ..read more

BlueSky Statistics is a free and open-source graphical user interface for the powerful R language. There is also a commercial “Pro” version that offers tech support, priority feature requests, and many powerful additional features. The Pro version has been beefed up considerably with the new features below. These features apply to quality control, general statistics, team collaboration, project management, … The post BlueSky Statistics Enhancements first appeared on r4stats.com ..read more

BlueSky Statistics exhibit at the American Society for Quality World Conference on Quality and Improvement in San Diego from 12 to 14 May, Booth #720 (https://asq.org/conferences/wcqi/solution-partners). BlueSky Statistics is an R-based software for statistics, data science, Six Sigma, DoE, and more. An alternative to Minitab and similar software, it is designed for quality professionals to identify areas for process and quality improvement and eliminate waste to drive continuous improvement with process capability analysis (PCA), control charts, measurement system analysis (MSA), design ..read more

Sooner or later, most R programmers end up with code that no longer runs because of package updates. One way to address the problem was the MRAN Time Machine which Microsoft retired on July 1, 2023. You can get similar functionality for source packages using “dateback,” thanks to Ryota Suzuki. As with MRAN, examples of when you could benefit from using dateback include: Checking the reproducibility of old code without pre-archived R packages. Returning your code to an older state when everything was fine. Needing to work on an older version of R, on which recent versions of some packages do n ..read more

Are attending this year’s Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto? If so, stop by booth 404 to see the latest features of BlueSky Statistics. A menu-based graphical user interface for the R language, BlueSky lets people access the power of R without having to learn to program. Programmers can easily add code to BlueSky’s menus, sharing their expertise with non-programmers. My detailed review of BlueSky is here, a brief comparison to other R GUIs is here, and the BlueSky User Guide is here. I hope to see you in Toronto! The post See BlueSky Statistics GUI for R at JSM 2023 first appeared on r4sta ..read more

I’ve updated The Popularity of Data Science Software‘s market share estimates based on scholarly articles. I posted it below, so you don’t have to sift through the main article to read the new section. Scholarly Articles Scholarly articles provide a rich source of information about data science tools. Because publishing requires significant effort, analyzing the type of data science tools used in scholarly articles provides a better picture of their popularity than a simple survey of tool usage. The more popular a software package is, the more likely it will appear in scholarly publications as ..read more

At the useR! 2022 Conference, the world-renowned Mayo Clinic announced that after 20 years of using SAS Institute’s JMP software, they have migrated to the BlueSky Statistics user interface for R. Ross Dierkhising, a principal biostatistician with the Clinic, described the process. They reviewed 16 commercial statistical software packages and none met their needs as well as JMP. Then they investigated three graphical user interface for the powerful R language: BlueSky Statistics, jamovi, and JASP. They found BlueSky meet their needs as well as JMP, for significantly less cost. Then Mayo’s sta ..read more

BlueSky Statistics is an easy-to-use menu system that uses the R language to do all its work. My detailed review of BlueSky is available here, and a brief comparison of the various menu systems for R is here. I’ve just released the BlueSky Statistics 7.1 User Guide in printed form on the world’s largest independent bookstore, Lulu.com. A description and detailed table of contents are available here. Cover design by Kiran Rafiq. I’ve also released the BlueSky Statistics 7.1 Intro Guide. It is a complete subset of the User Guide, and you can download it for free here (if you have trouble downloa ..read more

The BlueSky Statistics graphical user interface (GUI) for the R language has added quite a few new features (described below). I’m also working on a BlueSky User Guide, a draft of which you can read about and download here. [Update: don’t download that, get the full Intro Guide download instead.] Although I’m spending a lot of time on BlueSky, I still plan to be as obsessive as ever about reviewing all (or nearly all) of the R GUIs, which is summarized here. The new data management features in BlueSky are: Date Order Check — this lets you quickly check across the dates stored in many variabl ..read more