On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Ian Fellows <ian.fellows@stat.ucla.edu>wrote:

> 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.
>
>
With Qt and GTK+ available to R, polished and professional GUIs are a real
possibility, in my opinion.


> 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@sebble.com>
> > To:
> > r-sig-gui@r-project.org
> > Date:
> > 06/08/2011 06:36 AM
> > Subject:
> > [R-gui] Developing a GUI
> > Sent by:
> > r-sig-gui-bounces@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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