[R] GUIs

[Jan de Leeuw]

Our programming staff is working on a Cocoa GUI for R (and on R services,
which makes it possible to evaluate R expressions from any Cocoa application
which has a text window). One of the ideas is to customize this for teaching
various courses, using "course plugins".

On Friday, Jun 28, 2002, at 08:50 America/Los_Angeles, Don MacQueen wrote:

> Regarding all of the various visions/dreams/suggestions for GUIs that have been raised recently: who is going to do it?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> -Don
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