The rpanel package has two aims. The first is to provide tools which make the construction of gui control panels for R applications as easy as possible. The package is aimed at those who know R but are not familiar with the technicalities of the various gui construction systems which are available. The rpanel package is built on rtcltk and manages the process of communication so that controls can be constructed directly by R simple function calls.
The second aim of rpanel is to use these gui construction tools to provide specific applications. There is a particular emphasis on tools for the teaching of statistics, but not exclusively so.
Version 1.0-4 of the package is available in both source and MS-Windows forms. The package is also available from the CRAN archive, where a MAC OS version can also be obtained. A Quick Reference Guide for the package is available in pdf form.
A paper on the package has been published in the Journal of Statistical Software. There is also file of scripts to run the examples of the paper. (These scripts are also included in the examples listed below.)
An R News article on the package has been published. A script file, a data file and an image file for the examples of the article are available here.
An MSOR Connections article has also been published. A script file for the examples of the article is available here. Note that one of the examples requires the 2-parameter likelihood function mentioned in the list below.
A paper describing spatial simulation and sampling tools (rp.geosim, rp.mururoa, rp.firth) in a teaching context is also available.
Some sample scripts are also available and these are listed below. If you find rpanel useful and you have developed code which others might also find useful, please let Adrian Bowman (adrian@stats.gla.ac.uk) know. It would be good to add further examples to this list.
