[R-gui] R and DirectFB
Johnny Accot
accot@almaden.ibm.com
Wed, 04 Dec 2002 11:21:00 -0800
Hi,
I joined the mailing list yesterday and I am very pleased to hear about this SIG-GUI initiative. Personally I have often thought about the UI aspects of R, but more in a "toolkit approach". More precisely I wanted (but lacked time) to see if it is easy/possible to interface R with DirectFB (http://directfb.org) under Linux. My dream would be to have R drive the whole framebuffer, using the Gtk port to DirecFB (http://directfb.org/gtk.xml) or a simple graphical toolkit written in R on top of DirectFB. The new toolkit would have antialiasing and transparency capabilities, and would be much faster/simpler than its X counterpart.
Would anybody else be interested in such a thing? Would you have an idea of the difficulty to interface R with DirectFB? (in particular in terms of event loop)
I would appreciate any comment or advice.
Thanks,
Johnny