[R-gui] Platform-independent GUI for R... again

[A.J. Rossini]

Lisp and Emacs.

Of course :-).

Platform independence, and, as shown by JDEE, has a nice set of
modeling functions that can be applied.   CEDET provides UML style,
should anyone figure out useful mappings (I'm not releasing my useless
ones :-).  And given the similarity between the S4 object system and
CLOS, one can leverage that as well.

best,
-tony



On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 12:02:26 +0100, Philippe Grosjean
<phgrosjean at sciviews.org> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Following my two previous mails about Tinn-R and the R GUI API, I would like
> to start a discussion about the best toolkit and language to use to
> implement a GUI for R.
> 
> Indeed, I am long waiting something around wxWidgets... But this seems to be
> further delayed:
> 
> 1) I put much hope on the James Wettenhall's R-wxPython package. However,
> despite its persistent attemps, it seems that there are still problems under
> Linux. Moreover, James has now other priorities and the package is left in
> an incomplete, experimental state,
> 
> 2) Related to this, I put much hope to Boa Constructor as the IDE to build a
> GUI using Python / wxWidgets for R... Unfortunatelly, wxPython changed a lot
> from version 2.4 to 2.5... And Boa Constructor is still not running well
> with wxPython 2.5 (latest version 0.3-1 tested),
> 
> 3) I look closely to Rpy, which seems to work well (but it needs to be
> recompiled for every R version, and it does not provide a solution by itself
> neither for the graphical toolkit, nor for the IDE),
> 
> 4) I am testing ActiveState Komodo, an excellent IDE for Perl/Tcl/Python
> (but not free). The pro version provides a nice GUI builder, but it uses
> only the Tk toolkit with a limited amount of extra widgets. This appears too
> limited for my GUI. I need, at least, a powerful code editor like Scintilla,
> and a reasonable HTML widget which support JavaScript and cascaded style
> sheets.
> 
> 5) Delphi/Kylix... This is a nice IDE (although not free), and it proves to
> give efficient GUIs, at least under Windows (see Tinn-R, for instance!). I
> don't like much this solution because it means for me to move from Microsoft
> language/IDE (mainly Visual Basic in the current SciViews-R), to Borland
> equivalent... If I have to rewrite everything, I would prefer to do it in a
> GPL language/environment!
> 
> 6) Java with Eclipse? Well, this is the JGR solution. I don't know Java and
> have lot of problems with the SJava / Rjava interface (well, I hope this
> will be solved in the future,... But for now?).
> 
> So, for now, I am still stuck with my Windows-only solution for a R GUI,
> just because I do not have the full combination of a complete IDE with a
> feature-rich-enough graphical toolkit and a flawless R communication with
> it. All I can do, is to move as much code as possible into R... Hence, the
> GUI API.
> 
> Any idea? Any suggestion?
> Thanks,
> 
> Philippe Grosjean
> 
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best,
-tony

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