[R] Building GUI for custom R application

[Franzini, Gabriele [Nervianoms]]

Hello Harsh,
I found useful the fgui package ( http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~tjhoffm/fgui.html ). 
Regards,
Gabriele Franzini 
ICT Applications Manager 
Nerviano Medical Sciences SRL 
Nerviano Italy 




-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Rowlingson [mailto:b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk] 
Sent: 14 April 2009 12:55
To: Harsh
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Building GUI for custom R application

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:23 AM, Harsh <singhalblr at gmail.com> wrote:
> HI R users,
> I would appreciate information/examples/suggestions on building GUIs 
> for R applications.
> I am currently working on a project that would require the following 
> functionalities :
>
> 1) Display a  window to the user. Provide a function to scan local 
> drive and choose dataset file.
> 2) Display the column names for the user to choose the dependent 
> variable and the independent variables.
> 3) Fit regression and display statistics.

> Item 2 provides an example of creating a regression application with 
> slider controls for a parameter in loess function used in the example 
> application in that paper.
> For documentation on RGtk the author recommends reading the Gtk 
> tutorial and documentation. I seem to have difficulty in making sense 
> of the Gtk documentation since most of it is in C and documentation is 
> available for use of Gtk with Perl and Python. I am not a 
> C/Perl/Python programmer.
Barry