Plugins: R Commander Plug-in Packages
Description
Plug-ins are R packages that extend the R Command interface.Details
An R Commander plug-in is an ordinary R package that (1) provides extensions to
the R Commander menus is a file named menus.txt
located in the package's
etc
directory; (2) provides call-back functions required by these menus;
and (3) in optional Log-Exceptions:
and Models:
fields in the
package's DESCRIPTION
file, augments respectively the list of functions
for which printed output is suppressed and the list of model objects
recognized by the R Commander. The menus provided by a plug-in package are
merged with the standard Commander menus.
Plug-in packages given in the R Commander plugins
option
(see Commander
) are automatically loaded when the Commander
starts up. Plug-in packages may also be loaded via the Commander
Tools -> Load Rcmdr plug-in(s) menu; a restart of the Commander is
required to install the new menus. Finally, loading a plug-in package when
the Rcmdr is not loaded will load the Rcmdr and activate the
plug-in.
An illustrative R Commander plug-in package, RcmdrPlugin.TeachingDemos, is
available on CRAN.