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

[Philippe Grosjean]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-sig-gui-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-sig-gui-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of 
> Duncan Temple Lang
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 4:35 PM
> To: Vaidotas Zemlys
> Cc: r-sig-gui at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R-gui] Platform-independent GUI for R... again
> 
> Vaidotas Zemlys wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > 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),
> > > 
> > 
> > What about using pythons gtk bindings together with Rpy? Build 
> > apropriate gtk app and then bridge it with R using Rpy.  I 
> do not know 
> > about portability though. It will certainly run on linux, but there 
> > could be some issues with Windows.
> 
> 
> Just for the record, we have  direct Gtk bindings from R to 
> Gtk. So there is no need to complicate matters introducing an 
> intermediate layer, RPy and Python.
> 
> I have been looking at upgrading the packages to support Gtk2.*

Nice! Do you think it will run under Windows and MacOS too?

Best,

Philippe