1. For RevolutionR capabilities, contact them (mailing lists, website, etc.)
2. CRAN has a whole section on GUI's. You should consult it: http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/ 3. Your GUI query would be more appropriate on the R-sig-gui list. Cheers, Bert On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 4:47 AM, Alan Sausse <alansau...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Not an expert R user, something of a novice - please be gentle with me! > > I have a particular interest in generalised linear models (GLMs) and I'm > experienced in fitting them using other bits of software. > > R can fit GLMs of course, using the glm() command. I have some large > multivariate data sets I'd like to fit GLMs to, ideally using R. Two > concerns though: > > Firstly, I'm told that R isn't especially fast at fitting GLMs, especially > if the data files are too large to fit into RAM. Can anyone advise if > there are alternatives to glm() around which might cope better. For > example, I've heard that RevolutionR is available, and claims to fit GLMs > faster in these cases. Might it be possible, alternatively, to write some > very quick code using C (for example) and to get R to invoke this instead? > Has anyone tried to do this? > > Secondly, I might like to create some kind of GUI so that I can have a nice > interface for viewing data, specifying models, showing graphical model > outputs, etc. Is there a preferred way to do this? The only GUI builder I > know of is Shiny - http://www.rstudio.com/shiny/ - is this a good way to > go? What alternatives might I consider? > > My IT/coding skills are limited. I'm hoping at some point to find an R > expert to collaborate with, but in the mean time, a few pointers would be > appreciated. > > Thanks! > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Bert Gunter Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics Internal Contact Info: Phone: 467-7374 Website: http://pharmadevelopment.roche.com/index/pdb/pdb-functional-groups/pdb-biostatistics/pdb-ncb-home.htm ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
