[R] Creating GUIs for R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Greg Snow wrote:

> I am not involved in the RExcel project.  I have just had some 
> discussions with the people that are, so you should contact them for 
> specific questions.
>
> I believe that this currently only works on windows, there was some 
> mention of possibly expanding it to OpenOffice so that it would be cross 
> platform, but I have no idea if that has made it past the "good idea" 
> stage.

I don't think that would be cross-platform.  The heart of RExcel is Thomas 
Baier's (D)COM glue applications, and COM is Windows proprietary 
technology (which we are fortunate that Thomas understands).


> -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain 
> Healthcare greg.snow at imail.org 801.408.8111
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
>> project.org] On Behalf Of [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team
>> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 1:03 AM
>> To: Greg Snow
>> Cc: Antonio Martinez Cortizas; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch; Wade Wall
>> Subject: Re: [R] Creating GUIs for R
>>
>> Greg Snow wrote:
>>> http://rcom.univie.ac.at/
>>>
>>> Or just install the RExcelInstaller package and run the installRExcel
>> function.
>>>
>>> A  book on the interface will be coming out sometime in Winter.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
>>> Statistical Data Center
>>> Intermountain Healthcare
>>> greg.snow at imail.org
>>> 801.408.8111
>> Thank you, Greg. Great work.
>>
>> I guess this is a Windows-only utility, isn't it? We are working on
>> Mac,  is there any chance of getting this server working in Mac?
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Ricardo
>>
>> --
>> Ricardo Rodríguez
>> Your XEN ICT Team
>>
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