[R] GUI support from R

[Duncan Temple Lang]

And I am just starting to put together a set of Gtk bindings for R.
It will be a very gradual affair if I do it manually, but I might also
use some programmatic tools to build the interface.  Ideally others
will add bits and pieces for different widgets if we don't do it
manually. The idea is to be able to take advantage of new widgets
(e.g. the gtk-extra library) and also to allow one to create GUIs
using R code within applications such as Gnumeric, etc.  and to be
able to "program" GGobi GUIs from within R.

Just in case I didn't emphasize it enough, this is very, very early
stages of the work.

Another approach that is useful for building simple and constrained
GUIs are form elements in HTML (with a little Java) and using R inside
Netscape (www.omegahat.org/SNetscape). This is for a very specific
form of GUI.

 D.


Thomas Lumley wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Doug Nychka wrote:
> 
> >
> > I am trying to figure what has been contributed toward building graphical
> > interfaces from R. The only item I have found ( and this looks very
> > promising) is the package tcltk under R for Windows.  Are there
> >
> > 1) more examples using the tcltk package
> >
> > 2) tcltk package ports to  LINUX
> 
> It works under Unix and Linux if it can find your Tcl/Tk installation at
> configure time. I think it was first developed under Linux.
> 
> > 3) Anything else out there?
> 
> The RJava interface (www.omegahat.org) could be used with Swing
> components.
> 
> Probably the RPython bindings could also be used somehow.
> 
> 	-thomas
> 
> Thomas Lumley			Asst. Professor, Biostatistics
> tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle
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