Visualizing Likert Items. Shiny. R is not just for nerds….it has drop-down menus! This post introduces how to use the Java Gui for R (JGR, pronounced Jaguar) along with the Deducer package () to get a fairly full featured graphical user interface for R.
Note: Be sure you are logged into an account with administrative privileges, or some stuff won't won't install correctly but will give only cryptic error messages. Make sure you have the most recent version of R (currently 2.15.0) installed. Install JGR. On Windows, download and run the jgr-1_62.exe file or the jgr-1_62-x64.exe file for 64-bit systems. Ggplot2. I believe visualization of data is extremely important and not emphasized quite enough in the social sciences.
At the very least, exploratory visualization of a data set should be a part of any thorough analysis, even if it doesn't make it into the final paper. On this note, I want to showcase the use of ggplot2 as an amazing package for visualization in R. Although start-up costs are higher than using the base package for plots, the final product is better in my opinion (another common package for visualization of multivariate data is lattice).