[R] question from a beginner

[hzi@uol.com.br]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 02:02:10PM +0100, Agustin Lobo wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 hzi at uol.com.br wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 06:49:00PM -0500, Ben Bolker wrote:
> > > 
> > >   No, not really.
> > >   There are some facilities if you want to *design* GUIs for other people
> > > to use, e.g. the Tcl/Tk extensions or Rweb (www.math.montana.edu/Rweb/),
> > > but nothing where you can start from scratch with an arbitrary set of
> > > data.  R is much more process-oriented: if you know what you want to do
> > > (linear regression, ANOVA, etc.), it should be fairly easy to find the
> > > commands that do what you want.  S-PLUS has GUI facilities, although I
> > > haven't tried them.  I think there is a fairly strong philosophy among
> > > most R developers that the "right" way to do things is to learn some of
> > > the underlying foundations so that you can really understand what you are
> > > doing.  It is easier to go wrong with GUIs -- although there are lots of
> > > confounding factors, and GUIs can be designed in better or worse ways.
> > >
> > 
> > 	As true as it what you've said may be, one sometimes wishes for a little GUI
> > functionality.
> > 	If one __were__ to develop (say something with Tk), or any other contribution
> > in that sense, how could one distribute it)?
> > 	Little tedious things like summary and histograms...
> > 
> > 	Cheers,
> > 
> > 	Henry L
> 
> I agree, some basic functionality in a menu would be handy, like,
> for example, being able to print or save displayed graphics or geting a
> window with an object browser. 
> 
> Agus
> 
> Dr. Agustin Lobo


Dr. Lobo-

	XLisp-Stat has some very nice functionalities, like choosing to save
	the image in PostScript.

	It wouldn't be bad at all to have that in R...

	Cheers,

	Henry L.
	
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