That would be a good idea. I'm finishing up a much more comprehensive guide
that will become available soon.

Thanks for the suggestion,
Michael

2008/2/14 Felix Andrews <felix@nfrac.org>:

> I just discovered a good introduction to the RGtk2 package:
> RShowDoc("overview2", package="RGtk2")
>
> I have been using RGtk2 for over a year without knowing about that,
> and struggling with the API documentation, so can I suggest that it be
> mentioned somewhere prominent? i.e. put it on the project web-page,
> and make it a vignette so that it appears on the CRAN package page.
>
> Cheers,
> Felix
>
>
> 2008/2/11 Felix Andrews <felix@nfrac.org>:
> > Yes, a GUI based on GTK+ (with or without Glade) will work on Windows
> XP.
> >
> >  If what you want to do is relatively straightforward (say, without any
> >  fancy formatting, or advanced event handling) then you should consider
> >  gWidgets. Look at the vignette in the gWidgets package.
> >
> >  If you do decide to go with RGtk2 directly rather than gWidgets, look
> >  at demo(package="RGtk2"). If you are using Glade, you might want to
> >  look at the source code for Rattle, which is a GUI built with Glade:
> >  see http://rattle.googlecode.com/
> >  and http://datamining.togaware.com/survivor/Installation_Details.html
> >  (Another example is hydrosanity: http://hydrosanity.googlecode.com/)
> >
> >  By the way, there is a special mailing list for GUI issues:
> >  https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-gui
> >
> >  Felix
> >
> >
> >
> >  On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Anja Kraft
> >  <anja.kraft@mail.uni-oldenburg.de> wrote:
> >  > Hallo,
> >  >
> >  >  I'd like to write a GUI (first choice with GTK+).
> >  >  I've surfed through the R- an Omegahat-Pages, because I'd like to
> use
> >  >  RGTK2, GTK 2.10.11 in combination with glade on Windows XP (perhaps
> later
> >  >  Unix, Mac).
> >  >  I've found a lot of different information. Because of the
> information I'm
> >  >  not sure, if this combination is running on Windows XP and I'm
> unsure how
> >  >  it works.
> >  >
> >  >  Is there anyone, who has experience with this combination (if it
> works)
> >  >  and could tell me, where I could find something like a tutorial, how
> this
> >  >  combination is used together and how it works?
> >  >
> >  >  Thank you very much,
> >  >
> >  >  Anja Kraft
> >  >
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> >  >  and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> >  >
> >
> >
> >
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