[R-gui] Seeking comments/testers for a new GUI

Romain Francois romain.francois at dbmail.com
Wed Jun 17 10:13:24 CEST 2009


Ian Fellows wrote:
> That screen shot looks right. If you load a data frame into your workspace,
> you'll be able to see and edit it in the viewer. The data and analysis menus
> Contain the dialogs used for analysis.
>   
Ah ok. I assumed the new menu would be added to the existing console 
window.

>> Interesting. Can you elaborate on that ?
>>     
> JGR is moving from accessing JRI directly to using REngine, which is a bit
> safer.
>
> Ian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Romain Francois [mailto:romain.francois at dbmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:38 AM
> To: Fellows, Ian
> Cc: r-sig-gui at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R-gui] Seeking comments/testers for a new GUI
>
> Ian Fellows wrote:
>   
>> That was a stupid typo... fixed in dev
>>
>> You said the "something" happens when you use .jpackage(pkgname). Does
>>     
> that
>   
>> mean that you see the menu items and data viewer?
>>   
>>     
> It brings another JFrame (see the screenshot)
>
>   
>> As for sources, I should have mentioned where to get them in the first
>> place. The package sources are available on rforge.net.
>>   
>>     
> Would still be a good move to ship java source together with R source in 
> the **source** package that goes on CRAN
>
>   
>> Package:
>> http://www.rforge.net/Deducer/svn.html
>> java sources:
>> http://www.rforge.net/org/svn.html
>>
>> You can install the latest dev version with:
>> install.packages("Deducer",,"http://rforge.net/",type="source")
>>
>> It should be noted that JGR is transitioning to a new backend (starting
>>     
> with
>   
>> 1.7), so Deducer in its works with the current CRAN version (1.6-7). 
>>   
>>     
> Interesting. Can you elaborate on that ?
>
>   
>> Ian
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Romain Francois [mailto:romain.francois at dbmail.com] 
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:27 AM
>> To: Tom Hodder
>> Cc: Fellows, Ian; r-sig-gui at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Subject: Re: [R-gui] Seeking comments/testers for a new GUI
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Same problem with a fedora 10/R-devel/JGR 1.6-7.
>>
>> I see this after loading the package within JGR which does not look good:
>>
>>  > .deducer
>> [1] "Java-Object<null>"
>>
>> Not easy to help more as you don't include the java code within the 
>> source package. I don't know what a "org/rosuda/deducer/Deducer" object 
>> is supposed to be.
>>
>> If you wanted to include java code in the R package, you could follow 
>> these:
>>
>>     
> http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr/index.php?post/2009/03/26/Hello-Java-Worl
>   
>> d
>>
>>     
> http://romainfrancois.blog.free.fr/index.php?post/2009/03/27/Document-java-s
>   
>> oftware-with-%22R-CMD-build%22%2C-ant%2C-and-javadoc
>>
>> Apparently, the problem is in the .First.lib function, and something 
>> happens if I replace this line:
>>
>> .jpackage(pkgname,"Deducer.jar")
>>
>> by this line:
>>
>> .jpackage(pkgname)
>>
>> The deducer.jar file does not have a capital D when it is on my machine, 
>> so case sensitive operating systems have a problem with it.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Romain
>>
>> Tom Hodder wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Ian Fellows wrote:
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> 1. Download and install JGR from: 
>>>> http://jgr.markushelbig.org/Download.html
>>>> 2. Open JGR and at the prompt enter: install.packages("Deducer")
>>>> 3. Enter: library(Deducer)     ##you should now see Data and Analysis 
>>>> menus
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am not seeing any additional menus appear after completing those 
>>> steps...?
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>     
>>>       
>>   
>>     
>
>
>   


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