ade4TkGUI

ade4TkGUI is a Tcl/Tk GUI for some statistical functions of the ade4 package and uses the graphical functions of the adegraphics package.

The ade4 package contains Data Analysis functions to analyse Ecological and Environmental data in the framework of Euclidean Exploratory methods. To learn more about ade4, see the web site and the GitHub page, and for adegraphics, see the GitHub page.

The ade4TkGUI package mixes the advantages of a GUI (ease to use, no need to learn numerous commands) with the possibility to use R expressions in the dialog boxes, to generate understandable R commands, and to manage a session history file.

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Please note! Since January 2024, this repository has belonged to the adeverse organization. To avoid confusion, we strongly recommend updating any existing local clones to point to the new repository URL. You can do this by using git remote on the command line:

git remote set-url origin [email protected]:adeverse/ade4TkGUI.git

or

git remote set-url origin https://github.com/adeverse/ade4TkGUI.git

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Installing some dependencies

You must install the ade4 and adegraphics packages in a stable version from CRAN or in a development one from GitHub.

install_github("adeverse/ade4")
install_github("adeverse/adegraphics")

or

install.packages("ade4")
install.packages("adegraphics")

Installing the development version of ade4TkGUI

• Install the release version of remotes from CRAN with install.packages("remotes").

• Make sure you have a working development environment.

  • Windows: Install Rtools.
  • Mac: Install Xcode from the Mac App Store.
  • Linux: Install a compiler and various development libraries (details vary across different flavors of Linux).

Then:

remotes::install_github("adeverse/ade4TkGUI")

If you do not wish to install the development environments Rtools (Windows) / XCode (Mac), we can supply binary packages of the development version of ade4TkGUI on request.

Installing the stable version of ade4TkGUI

install.packages("ade4TkGUI")

Loading ade4TkGUI

library("ade4TkGUI")

Start with ade4TkGUI

The core of the package is the ade4TkGUI() function which opens this main GUI window :

Only a limited subset of ade4 functions is displayed. Less frequently used functions are available through the menus of the menu bar, located at the top of the window.

The ade4TkGUI() function takes two arguments, show and history. The first one determines wether the R commands generated by the GUI should be printed in the console. If the history argument is set to TRUE, the commands generated by the GUI are also stored in the .Rhistory file, where they can easily be retrieved by the user.