Articles by Bob Muenchen

R GUI Reviews Updated

September 25, 2024 | Bob Muenchen

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 ...

BlueSky Statistics Version 10 is Not Open Source

September 5, 2024 | Bob Muenchen

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 ... [Read more...]

BlueSky Statistics Enhancements

July 30, 2024 | Bob Muenchen

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 ...

Minitab Alternative BlueSky Statistics to Display Graphical Interface to R at ASQ Conference

May 12, 2024 | Bob Muenchen

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, ...

Ensure R Language Reproducibility with dateback Package

August 1, 2023 | Bob Muenchen

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 ... [Read more...]

See BlueSky Statistics GUI for R at JSM 2023

July 26, 2023 | Bob Muenchen

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 ...

Update to Data Science Software Popularity

June 7, 2023 | Bob Muenchen

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 ...

Data Science Software Popularity Update

October 12, 2022 | Bob Muenchen

I have recently updated my extensive analysis of the popularity of data science software. This update covers perhaps the most important section, the one that measures popularity based on the number of job advertisements. I repeat it here as a blog post, so you don’t have to read the ...

Mayo Clinic Announces Move from SAS’ JMP to BlueSky Statistics

September 12, 2022 | Bob Muenchen

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 ...

Updated Comparison of R Graphical User Interfaces

July 5, 2022 | Bob Muenchen

I have just updated my detailed reviews of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for R, so let’s compare them again. It’s not too difficult to rank them based on the number of features they offer, so let’s start there. I’m basing the counts on the number of ...

R Graphical User Interface Comparison

February 9, 2022 | Bob Muenchen

I have recently updated my detailed reviews of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for R, so it’s time for another comparison post. It’s not too difficult to rank them based on the number of features they offer, so let’s start there. I’m basing the counts on the ...

A Comparative Review of the R-Instat GUI for R

January 24, 2022 | Bob Muenchen

by Robert A. Muenchen Introduction R-Instat is a free and open source graphical user interface for the R software that focuses on people who want to point-and-click their way through data science analyses. Written in Visual Basic, it is currently only available for Microsoft Windows. However, a Linux version is ...

BlueSky Statistics Intro and User Guides Now Available

November 23, 2020 | Bob Muenchen

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 … Continue reading → The post BlueSky Statistics Intro and User ...

R GUI Update: BlueSky User’s Guide, New Features

August 3, 2020 | Bob Muenchen

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’s Guide, a draft of which you can read about and download here. Although … Continue reading →

Updates to R GUIs: BlueSky, jamovi, JASP, & RKWard

March 31, 2020 | Bob Muenchen

Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for the R language help beginners get started learning R, help non-programmers get their work done, and help teams of programmers and non-programmers work together by turning code into menus and dialog boxes. There has been … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Biomedical Data Science Textbook Available

January 13, 2020 | Bob Muenchen

By Bob Hoyt & Bob Muenchen Data science is being used in many ways to improve healthcare and reduce costs. We have written a textbook, Introduction to Biomedical Data Science, to help healthcare professionals understand the topic and to work … Continue reading →

A Comparative Review of the R AnalyticFlow GUI for R

December 9, 2019 | Bob Muenchen

Introduction R AnalyticFlow (RAF) is a free and open source graphical user interface (GUI) for the R language that focuses on beginners looking to point-and-click their way through analyses. What sets it apart from the other half-dozen GUIs for R … Continue reading →

Is Scholarly Use of R Use Beating SPSS Already?

July 15, 2019 | Bob Muenchen

by Bob Muenchen & Sean Mackinnon One of us (Muenchen) has been tracking The Popularity of Data Science Software using a variety of different approaches. One approach is to use Google Scholar to count the number of scholarly articles found … Continue reading →

New Versions of R GUIs: BlueSky, JASP, jamovi

June 18, 2019 | Bob Muenchen

It has been only two months since I summarized my reviews of point-and-click front ends for R, and it’s already out of date! I have converted that post into a regularly-updated article and added a plot of total features, which … Continue reading →

Data Science Jobs Report 2019: Python Way Up, Tensorflow Growing Rapidly, R Use Double SAS

May 28, 2019 | Bob Muenchen

In my ongoing quest to track The Popularity of Data Science Software, I've just updated my analysis of the job market. To save you from reading the entire tome, I'm reproducing that section here. Continue reading →

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