[R-gui] Developing a GUI

[Ian Fellows]

I know there were some rather lengthy discussions on the topic during the GSOC application process. It is my opinion that programing from within R is a very good way to get a working GUI quickly, but you are better served leaving R for something polished and professional looking.

ian

btw, you can also provide menu items for Deducer/JGR regardless of the toolkit you use. 


On Jun 9, 2011, at 7:33 AM, David L Lorenz wrote:

> Sebastian,
>  I have found that fgui is a very easy-to-use package for developing 
> GUIs. The documentation gives some very good examples to get started.
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From:
> Sebastian Mellor <sebble at sebble.com>
> To:
> r-sig-gui at r-project.org
> Date:
> 06/08/2011 06:36 AM
> Subject:
> [R-gui] Developing a GUI
> Sent by:
> r-sig-gui-bounces at r-project.org
> 
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am spending this Summer developing a GUI for the hyperSpec package in R.
> I have already done some preliminary research but now I am really getting
> started.  The full requirements are yet undetermined but we have several
> desires as with most other GUIs, i.e., cross-platform, minimal
> pre-requisites, easy to install.  After looking at several available
> packages I am leaning towards gWidgets with either RGtk2 or TclTk layers 
> to
> cover most platforms.  I am also considering providing basic plugins for
> other packages like RCmdr to add a menu item to initiate any of the main 
> GUI
> features.  The GUI we are looking to create is not a full featured
> environment, but rather a collection of smaller functions to be chained.
> 
> While determining exactly what we require I am going to keep investigating
> the experience of using various GUI packages.  What are your experiences
> with the available packages in terms of installation and reliability when
> making small GUIs or 'widgets'?
> 
> One environment I have been using personally for the last couple of months
> is RStudio (server edition), this has proved extremely useful when working
> between Uni and home.  I believe an API will be released eventually 
> allowing
> the menu bar to be extended and I have just discovered that Rook will work
> from the web interface as it would from the desktop or any other console
> that could spawn a browser window.  Does anyone have any experience with
> using a web-based GUI?  This is probably out of the scope of my initial 
> aims
> but if gWidgets, gWidgetsWWW, rApache, Rook, EXT JS, and the rest of it 
> all
> worked together theoretically a gWidgets interface could also work on the
> web server too when using the RStudio console.  How unreasonable is this?
> 
> Best regards,
> Seb
> 
> P.S.  Any other comments and suggestions welcome.
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