[R] GUIs

[Timothy H. Keitt]

Although my preference is the command line, for those who want a GUI, I
can't help but think that the path of least resistance is to write a
plugin for gnumeric that calls R as a slave process. I haven't checked
out the gnumeric plugin api, but my guess is that it would allow you to
add menu items and write dialogs. As pointed out, someone new would have
to pick up the ball and run with it. Lets not divert effort away from
developing R itself.

T.

On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 11:50, Don MacQueen wrote:
> Regarding all of the various visions/dreams/suggestions for GUIs that 
> have been raised recently: who is going to do it?
> 
> The R core folks are obviously devoting large amounts of time and 
> effort to maintaining and improving R, and helping R users. I have 
> trouble imagining they have much time left over for the major 
> undertaking that the various GUI visions would entail.
> 
> R is by far the best organized, best documented, and best supported 
> of the half a dozen or so open-source software projects I've tried to 
> use. So when people start talking about improvements to the 
> documentation, fancy linking, and all that--yes, I understand. But 
> let's not lose sight of how good it already is.
> 
> -Don
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