[Rd] R, Wine, and multi-threadedness.

Marc Schwartz (via MN) mschwartz at mn.rr.com
Thu Oct 13 20:21:08 CEST 2005


On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 18:33 +0100, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote:
> <snipped>
> > I was more focused (and confused) on the Rgui.exe menus as the principal
> > justification for taking this approach, but again, perhaps I am lacking
> > context.
> 
> I think you are confused about Rgui.exe, versus "having a GUI for R" 
> (which is what I wrote - I never wrote "Rgui.exe", as that was *not*
> what I meant all along). 

Indeed. I stand corrected on that point, given your comments above and
now going back to look at your prior posts. This helps to clarify my
mis-perception.

> I did try but failed with the Sciview-R -
> it would install but won't run. Since the actual GUI faq is hosted
> by sciview on "http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/" as you pointed out,
> by association, my first guess was that it is a good bet to try
> the Sciview-R one first.
> 
> If anybody can name a "better" GUI than sciview-R, windows or linux,
> I am all ears - "better" in any sense of the word, preferably
> not in the ESS sense, as I already have that - nothing obviously
> against it, but I like alternatives, preferably covering different
> usage areas.

If you are so motivated, you might consider subscribing to and
contributing to the R-SIG-GUI list:

https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-gui

As I mentioned in the post I just sent, this is a cooperative "venture"
in which things happen because people selflessly contribute their time
and energy to make it happen.

> Before anybody jump in again, the fact that sciview-R is somewhat .NET 
> framework dependent (at least the binary installed by the
> default installer seems to be) is justifiably a development issue?

HTH,

Marc



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