[R-gui] Another R-GUI

[Philippe Grosjean]

Yes, Thomas, your are perfectly right: one has to establish a standard for
describing dialog boxes. Your XML-file implementation is interesting. I
don't think most complex dialog boxes should be constructed this way on the
fly, but this should be useful for 95% of our needs. I am willing to add a
page in http://www.r-project.org/GUI for proposing such a standard. Thomas,
would you like to propose a draft? Does somebody else want to participate? I
also think that people at Bioconductor, Omegahat and, of course, R-Core Team
should contribute to this, if they like. I just look at respective lists of
participants in R-SIG-GUI in one hand and Bioconductor in the other hand:
there are very few people involved in both. Peter, do you know who should I
contact directly at Bioconductor?

Also, probably related to this: I am thinking on a context sensitive user
interface organized around an object explorer. Items in the object explorer
would have context menus that trigger context sensitive dialog boxes
(pertinent analyses for, let's say, a data frame or a ts object are
obviously not the same) and an associated tabbed "explorer view window" that
allow to look at objects [most tabs of the view window would correspond to
methods of the object like summary(), plot(), hist(),...]. I think this
could be added in the XML specifications too. A context-sensitive "clipping
list" (list of R code templates, pertinent in the current context) could be
another nice addition too.
Best,

Philippe Grosjean


-----Message d'origine-----
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[mailto:r-sig-gui-admin@stat.math.ethz.ch]De la part de Peter Dalgaard
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Envoye : dimanche 17 novembre 2002 15:08
A : thomas.friedrichsmeier@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Cc : r-sig-gui@stat.math.ethz.ch
Objet : Re: [R-gui] Another R-GUI


thomas <thomas.friedrichsmeier@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> That is, the dialog for calculating a t-test (the only thing I
> implemented so far, as a demonstrational example:
> http://rkward.sf.net/pics.php ) is actually constructed at run-time
> from an XML-file. Similarily, the obveRsive-project is planning to
> use an XML-extension called Jelly, in order to implement such
> functionality as "actions".

Interesting. I think someone in BioConductor is thinking along similar
XML lines too. Personally, I'm still playing the game "bottom-up", but
I'll likely get to the specification issue at some point too.

(BTW, minor typo: I don't think you want an 'e' in 'issuing')

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