[R] GUI's for teaching

[A.J. Rossini]

And we've got most of this in ESS/XEmacs; what isn't listed has been
in the works (in some cases, for years :-(, see below).

This includes Mark's comment about extensible pull down menus defined
by R (tools were written in 1997 for doing that with ESS, it just
hasn't been high enough in the priority list).

best,
-tony


>>>>> "mark" == Mark Myatt <mark at myatt.demon.co.uk> writes:

    mark> I just thought that I would add my tuppence on this ... what I would
    mark> really like for R is not a GUI in the sense of a point and click data
    mark> analysis system (R is too rich for anything like that too scratch the
    mark> surface) or interactive graphics (I like to script them) but a full
    mark> featured IDE with:

    mark>         1. A syntax highlighting editor

    mark>         2. Code completion features such as automatic insertion of
    mark>         function templates.

    mark>         3. An ability to submit a file of R commands and capture the
    mark>         output in an output window.

    mark>         4. Capturing of errors in code integrated with editor. Some from
    mark>         of debugging / error tracking / stack tracing would be nice.

    mark>         5. An object inspector showing the objects available in the
    mark>         working environment ... it would be nice (e.g.) to be able to
    mark>         click on a data.frame reference and see column names, classes,
    mark>         &c. And to be able to paste these into the editor.

    mark>         6. Basic project management functions.

    mark>         7. Help system and language guide integrated.

    mark> I suppose my view is that R is a language based product and that if any
    mark> effort is to go into the user-interface then it should support the
    mark> language.

    mark> I suppose if the IDE were extensible then it would be possible to add
    mark> user defined menus that could call R functions that used the tcltk
    mark> library for front-ends.

    mark> Just my tuppence.

    mark> Mark


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