RJython? [was Re: [R-gui] [RGUI] Where do you start?]

Daniele Medri madrid at linuxmeeting.net
Fri Feb 13 13:20:17 MET 2004


> > I wonder if some combination of SJava and RSpython code, probably
> > implemented in Java,  could provide a library that gives R users access
> > to swing, via jython, from R.
>
> Please let's not pursue this as a GUI interface for R for replacing tcltk.
>  We need something fast, light, and that does not use a huge amount of
> memory.

Why don't devel the actually gtk interface?
GTk is portable (win, macos, linux)...
There are some binding (java, python, ecc..)
Is fast a lot.

Do you know Gretl? Take a look at gretl.sf.net for example and think about GTK 
for your scope.

Bye
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