[R-gui] OpenOffice.org and R

[Peter Dalgaard]

Philippe Grosjean <phgrosjean at sciviews.org> writes:

> Just a little comment on what Daniele Medri said:
> 
>  > are you working with wxWidgets too?
>  > Tcltk is a reality, but widgets are not so good, not so beauty.
> 
> I agree that tk is a little outdated: many widgets and features
> missing. However, it works with R quite good through the tcltk
> package. There is also tile, a project to "revitalize tk widgets". I
> make tcltk2, a R package to enhance tk widgets in R using tile and
> others. However, I develop it under Windows, and there is still a
> little work to do to make sure it compiles and works on all supported
> platforms.

Heh, yes, it is a constant toss-up whether we will find a manageable
interface to a better GUI system, or whether Tk itself will develop to
something more desirable. Tile is sort of a sidetrack in my view; it
prettifies, but doesn't add (much?) functionality. I'd much rather see
a canvas that was powerful enough to support an R graphics device (the
standard one has serious problems with clipping). Has anyone been
playing around Zinc on Windows?

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