[R-SIG-Mac] An example of Cocoa GUI for R

[Byron Ellis]

On May 14, 2004, at 7:16 AM, stefano iacus wrote:

> Finally, we are showing you a bit of work on the Cocoa GUI.
>
> Do not expect too much, it is just a preview. You have some nice 
> feature yet like code and file completion, but still don't expect too 
> much.
>
> Have a look here
>
> http://www.economia.unimi.it/R
>
>
> It works with R.app 1.9.0
>
> This is a joint work with Simon (mostly his work at the moment)
>

Looks pretty good so far...I assume the "metal" interface for the 
console is because There Can Be Only One? (Though, really, you can have 
a console and a bunch of edit windows). But so far, I like it a 
lot---if nothing else my ingrained Emacs habits don't get in the way of 
using R :-)



> When we will have time, we will also write some docs on how to write 
> your own gui for R using Cocoa, but don't expect any finished work 
> before R 2.0.0.
>
>

You could also---it might be better, from the point of view of 
eventually writing documentation, to have those of us less intimate 
with your design struggle mightily (or not) for a time with only some 
source as our guide (I tried to get something running a while back just 
looking at the R source, but not very hard) to get an idea of the rough 
spots. One suggestion from just looking at the initial source would be 
to have the bundle name be a preference such that multiple GUIs can be 
present on a system (perhaps also searching ~/Application Support or 
something) and switchable---switching on-the-fly would be extra-cool 
but I understand that you have to save SOME features for later ;-)

> stefano & simon
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Byron Ellis (bellis at hsph.harvard.edu)
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