[R-gui] [RGUI] Where do you start?

[John Fox]

Dear Erin,

At 12:55 PM 1/17/2004 -0600, Erin Hodgess wrote:
>Dear R-SIG-GUI:
>
>How would I start to build a GUI, please?
>Should I learn Visual Basic, please?
>
>Thanks so much in advance!

When I programmed the Rcmdr GUI, I took a look at several options including 
Visual Basic, and concluded that, at present, Tcl/Tk via the tcltk package 
was the way to go. The tcltk package is one of the recommended packages, 
the resulting GUI works under all platforms, and the Windows distribution 
of R installs with a basic Tcl/Tk system. The GUI itself can be distributed 
as a standard R package.

Beyond that, it's hard to give advice since you don't specify what the GUI 
will do, who will use it, on what platform(s) it will run, etc.

I hope that this helps,
  John
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