Overview

Rattle (the R Analytical Tool To Learn Easily) provides a simple and logical interface for data mining. It is a new data mining application based on the open source and free statistical language R using the Gnome graphical interface. The application runs under GNU/Linux and MS/Windows. The aim is to provide an intuitive interface that takes you through the basic steps of data mining, as well as illustrating the R code that is used to achieve this. Whilst the tool itself may be sufficient for all of a user's needs, it also provides a stepping stone to more sophisticated processing and modelling in R itself, for sophisticated and unconstrained data mining.

Installation

Prerequisites for GNU/Linux

1. Install the GTK+ libraries:

$ wajig install libglade2-dev

2. Install GGobi:

$ wajig install ggobi

3. Install R:

$ wajig install r-recommended

Prerequisties for Macintosh OS X

I have not heard of anyone succeeding in getting Rattle to work on the Macintosh - there are errors on loading RGtk+ and then memory errors when running Rattle. You could try the following. You may have better luck - please do let me know if you do.

1. Make sure you have X11 installed: look in Applications/Utilities. If it's not there, you'll need to install it from your OS X DVDs.
2. Download and install GTK+ (~19MB)
3. Download and install GGobi (~5MB)
4. Download and install R (~59MB)

Prerequisties for MS Windows

1. Download and install GTK+ (~13MB)
2. Download and install GGobi (~807KB)
3. Download and install R (~31MB)

Install and Run Rattle

1. Install Rattle by starting R and then:

> install.packages("rattle", dependencies=TRUE)

2. Optional: Install the beta version of Rattle:

> install.packages("rattle", repos="http://rattle.togaware.com")

3. Start up Rattle by opening the R Desktop icon and:

  > library(rattle)
  > rattle()

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