SENSOMINER : A PACKAGE FOR SENSORY DATA ANALYSIS

We propose a new package for sensory data analysis, named SensoMineR. SensoMineR is implemented in the R programming environment and can be accessed at the following addresses: http://sensominer.free.fr or http://cran.r-project.org. This package produces graphical displays of data that are simple to interpret, and it also provides syntheses of results issuing from various analysis of variance models or from various factor analysis methods accompanied with confidence ellipses. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS SensoMineR is a free software intended for sensory analysts from both academic and corporate institutions. SensoMineR is an easy and powerful solution that tackles the following problems: characterization of the products, panel performance assessment, links between sensory and instrumental data, consumer's preferences, napping evaluation, optimal designs. SensoMineR is implemented in R and can be used easily with the help of a very intuitive graphical interface.