[R] How to create an executable file from R GUI?

[Adrian Dușa]

Simon, Greg,

That is the very reason why I've given up on Tck/Tk, in favor of shiny.
The user interface opens up in a webpage, without opening the normal R
console (it only opens a Terminal window).

To exemplify, package QCAGUI has a function called runGUI(), and on Windows
it's a simple matter of creating a .bat file,
which for my user interface it only contains this:

CLS

TITLE QCA Qualitative Comparative Analysis

C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-3.2.3/bin/R.exe --slave --no-restore -e
"setwd('D:/');QCAGUI::runGUI()"


The double click on the .bat file, and that's it.
I hope it helps,
Adrian



On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 7:24 PM, Greg Snow <538280 at gmail.com> wrote:

> To give a full answer we need some more detail from you.  For example
> what operating system are you on? what do you mean by "users click on
> it"? and at what point do you want them to click (after running R,
> when looking at the desktop, etc.)
>
> But to help get you started you may want to look at the help page
> `?Startup` which tells you all the things that R does as it starts up
> and how to have it run commands automatically as it is starting up.
>
> I have created some GUI examples in the past that clients then wanted
> to have on their own computer to play with and demonstrate to others.
> I usually would install R on their machine for them and create a
> shortcut on the desktop (these were all MS Windows computers) that
> pointed to the standard R executable, but started in a specific
> directory/folder.  Then in that folder I created a ".Rprofile" file
> with the commands to load in the appropriate data and packages and run
> the gui demonstration.  The user could then double click on the
> shortcut on the desktop and 2 windows would pop up (the regular R
> interface and my gui demo), I instructed the client to just minimize
> and ignore the regular R window and they were then able to use my demo
> and then close everything when they were finished.  You could do
> something similar (but exactly how will differ between Windows, Mac,
> and Linux computers).
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:27 AM, simon0098--- via R-help
> <r-help at r-project.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've created a GUI using RGtk2 package. How can I make an executable
> file from my R script so that users click on it and the GUI appears for
> them?
> >
> >
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