[R-gui] Re: [MACTCL] Re: systemWindowBody color (fwd)

[James Wettenhall]

Here's a very helpful reply from Jan de Leeuw to my 
question about trying to use Tktable with R in X11 on Mac OSX.  
I'll have to double-check with my I.T. administrators to 
find out which version of R is installed on the Macs, and make 
sure that R is not accessing both an Aqua version of Tcl/Tk AND 
an X11 version!

Regards.
James

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 20:53:35 -0700
From: Jan de Leeuw <deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu>
To: tcl-mac at lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: James Wettenhall <wettenhall at wehi.edu.au>
Subject: Re: [MACTCL] Re: systemWindowBody color

There are three R's for OS X: the Carbon/CFM R (rapidly fading)
which allows no Tcl/Tk interaction, the Darwin/X11 CLI version
which you use with X11 Tcl/Tk from CVS or Fink, and the
Aqua R (still in beta) which you use with the Aqua Tcl/Tk
(currently does not work, but has worked in the past).

You cannot use Aqua versions of Tcl/Tk with the Darwin/X11
version, because you will get into problems with the Aqua
windowmanager (SetFrontProcess).

What I have done in the past is use IDLE (the Python GUI
with tkinter), load Rpy (the Python interface to R), and then
use Aqua Tcl/Tk from R running in IDLE. This works, but
it is needlessly complicated. The Aqua R, when fixed for
R-1.8.0, will be the better solution.

See http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/pub as well as
http://www.economia.unimi.it/R/
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Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical  
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