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R Commander

R Commander (Rcmdr) is a GUI for the R programming language, licensed under the GNU General Public License, and developed and maintained by John Fox in the sociology department at McMaster University. Rcmdr looks and works similarly to SPSS GUI by providing a menu of analytic and graphical methods. It also displays the underlying R code that runs each analysis.

Last revised
May 29, 2026
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≈ 1 min
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Source
R Commander
DeveloperJohn Fox et al.
Stable release
2.9-21 / February 8, 2024 (2024-02-08)
Operating systemCross-Platform
PlatformR programming language
TypeStatistical software
LicenseGNU General Public License
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R Commander (Rcmdr) is a GUI for the R programming language, licensed under the GNU General Public License, and developed and maintained by John Fox in the sociology department at McMaster University.2 Rcmdr looks and works similarly to SPSS GUI by providing a menu of analytic and graphical methods. It also displays the underlying R code that runs each analysis.3

Rcmdr can be installed from within R, like any R package. Integration with Microsoft Excel is provided by the RExcel package, which also provides an RAndFriendsLight "bundle" graphical installer. R commander is used as a suggested learning environment for a number of R-centric academic statistics books for students and scientists.45

See also

See also

References

References

Further reading

Further reading

  • Fox, John (2017). Using the R Commander: A Point-and-Click Interface for R. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4987-4190-3.
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