reshapeGUI: reshapeGUI: A GUI for the reshape2 and plyr packages...

In reshapeGUI: A GUI for the reshape2 and plyr packages.

Description

reshapeGUI: A GUI for the reshape2 and plyr packages ; A tool for learning how to use the functions, melt, acast/dcast, and ddply.

Details

This graphical user interface (GUI) was built with the gWidgets package, under the RGtk2 toolkit.

Some features of the GUI are as follows:

• Use either data frames from your workspace, or read in .csv files from your hard drive.

• Utilize help buttons (look for ?'s) within GUI for quick hints on how to use specific parts of the GUI

• Learn the syntax of the melt, acast/dcast, and ddply functions from the dynamically updating code previews

• Make changes to code within the GUI for added flexibility

• Preview both raw data frames, as well as ones created with melt, acast/dcast, and ddply for quick feedback and results

• Execute code in GUI to export created data frames to your workspace

• Export outputted data frame to .csv files

NOTE: This GUI is meant as a tool for learning how to use the specified functions, not as a replacement for their use. Much of the flexibility of the functions is lost within the GUI. I designed features like the code preview with the intention that the user would use the GUI in a sort of "training wheels" approach, eventually transitioning to being able to write the code independently. Good luck!

Author(s)

Jason Crowley [e-mail]

Examples

# Bring two datasets included with reshape2 into the workspace
data(tips)
data(french_fries)

# Run the GUI
## Not run: reshapeGUI()

reshapeGUI documentation built on May 1, 2019, 11 p.m.