ConsumerCheck 1.3.2

Software for analysis of sensory and consumer data

Copyright © 2009-2015 Thomas Graff.

Overview

ConsumerCheck is a software for statistical analysis of data from sensory and consumer science, or more precisely data that is acquired from consumer trials and descriptive analysis performed by trained sensory panels. ConsumerCheck has a an easy-to-use graphical user interface that makes the statistical methods available to users that have little or no programming skills.

Installation

I wish the answer is:

pip install consumercheck

But it is not that simple. ConsumerCheck uses numpy that is not easily automatically installed. Following is a list of the python modules that have to be present for ConsumerCheck to work.

Name	Tested ver	Function
chaco	4.4.1	Plotting library
pandas	0.15.1	Matrix container (0.16.2)
numpy	1.9.2	Basis for statistics and datatype
traits	4.5.0	Event and type automation for Traitsui and Chaco
traitsui	4.4.0	Abstract GUI toolkit
pyface	4.4.0	Traitsui needs this
enable	4.4.1	Support for Chaco
xlrd	0.9.3	For reading XL spreadsheet
openpyxl	1.8.5	For reading XL spreadsheet
colormath	2.1.1	Latest version
pyper	1.1.1	Python <-> R communication
configparser	3.3.0	Parsing configfile

In addition ConsumerCheck uses the R environment for statistical computing. So this have to be installed on you system for ConsumerCheck to function properly. There also have to be installed some libraries in the R environment:

lmerTest ver 2.0-11

MS Windows and Mac OS X

If you are on MS Window or Mac OS X the easiest you can do is to install the Anaconda python environment from Continiuum Analytic.

Then you have to use the Conda installer to add som python packages:

conda install chaco

ConsumerCheck can be installed with pip:

pip install consumercheck

Linux

The following installation procecure is tested on Debian Jessie 8.2.

On the shell commandline:

sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install python-pip python-pandas python-chaco python-qt4-gl python-networkx python-configparser r-base r-cran-lme4 r-cran-numderiv r-cran-hmisc r-cran-gplots r-cran-nloptr r-cran-plyr r-cran-ggplot2

sudo pip install consumercheck

Then you have to start R and run the following commands:

install.packages(c("pbkrtest"))
pkgurl <- "http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/lmerTest/lmerTest_2.0-11.tar.gz"
install.packages(pkgurl, repos=NULL, type="source")

Running ConsumerCheck

ConsumerCheck is started by typing ccgui on the command line.

Latest changes

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Roadmap

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