To find the maintainer, see ?maintainer The maintainer is also listed on the CRAN page. http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Deducer/index.html
Sarah On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Ranjan Maitra <maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 12:54:17 -0500 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 05/12/2014 12:34 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have been using Deducer for the past year for my very basic 100-level >> > introductory statistics classes for students from other disciplines. I >> > really have liked using it for this specific purpose (takes me out of >> > JMP!). However, over the past few months, issues have started cropping up >> > with (some, not all) Windows 7 machines (which I am personally not very >> > familiar with). Most of these problems are cleared when I manually and >> > individually install all the required packages one by one. However, this >> > is tedious to do for me, an instructor, for each and every student, and >> > also means that the main appeal of Deducer: one-click install and GUI is >> > lost. >> > >> > I have also noticed that Deducer's webpage mentions that it works on R >> > 2.10.0 or greater. However, it is not clear if this project is maintained >> > or not, so therefore, before I invest more time in using this for >> > teaching, I was wondering if the software is being maintained and >> > developed. >> > >> > I would like to say that Deducer works as advertised and no hiccups on >> > Fedora 20 Linux for R 3.1.2. >> > >> > Many thanks and best wishes, >> > Ranjan >> > >> > >> A question like this could only be answered by the maintainer of the >> package. Have you tried writing there? (You might already know the >> answer if you've reported the "issues" to them.) > > Thanks very much! I agree. However, I can not tell who the > developer/maintainer is, from the www.deducer.org webpage. There are several > questions, etc on the associated Google help group (on several topics) but no > answers. So I have been "fearing the worst," which is a pity: much as I > detest this GUI stuff for everything for my personal use, this was a good > (and better) option for these specific classes than JMP. Besides, at least > 20% of the students would figure out from the GUI that it was far easier and > more efficient to simply write out the commands than to submit using the GUI > interface, and the GUI would inform them what they could write (and modify). > I came to Deducer after looking at a lot of other related software. > > Well, I guess I was hoping that the developer was lurking here and he or > somebody else who knew could answer. > > Thanks again for responding! > > Best wishes, > Ranjan > -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
