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RReportGenerator : Automatic reports from routine statistical analysis using R

W. Raffelsberger et al.

Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on November 24, 2007

With the establishment of high-throughput screening methods there is an increasing need for automatic analysis methods. Here we present RReportGenerator, a user-friendly portal for automatic routine analysis using the statistical platform R and Bioconductor. RReportGenerator is designed to analyze data using predefined analysis scenarios via a graphical user interface (GUI). A report in pdf-format combining text, figures and tables is automatically generated and results may be exported. To demonstrate suitable analysis tasks we provide direct web-access to a collection of analysis scenarios for summarizing data from transfected cell arrays (TCA), segmentation of CGH data, and microarray quality control and normalization.

I haven’t tried the package they describe, but it sounds like it is wrapping R for doing analysis from a GUI and then producing a PDF report from the results.

When I use R, I usually do not know exactly how to analyse my data, so it is always very exploratory and there is no way I could automate that. But then I am probably not the kind of user this package is aimed at, and I can certainly recognize the kind of R users that would be better off being sheltered from the gory details of R behind a GUI…

I don’t know, maybe I’ll try it out some time.

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The citation for Research Blogger:
Raffelsberger, W., Krause, Y., Moulinier, L., Kieffer, D., Morand, A., Brino, L., Poch, O. (2007). RReportGenerator: automatic reports from routine statistical analysis using R. Bioinformatics, 24(2), 276-278. DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm556