From Knut-krueger at einthal.de  Sun Oct  9 15:17:22 2005
From: Knut-krueger at einthal.de (Knut Krueger)
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 15:17:22 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Project suggestion: Interface between R and graphic devices
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Prof Brian Ripley schrieb:

> I think you do not mean `graphics devices' as used by R (pdf, 
> postscript, X11, windows, quartz etc). 

Sorry no I do not mean such "devices"
I thought about the Graphic User Interfaces, to use the R-System with a
windows like surface http://www.sciviews.org/.
I see the difficulties for the user which want to change from SPSS or
Statistica or ? to R just inside my family.
I am using R to reproduce the SPSS results (just for fun because I want
my to learn R) my wife is using SPSS for her research program.
But it takes a long time for scientist to learn the command line syntax.
There is not time for this if the scientist is just inside a any
research ... and the scientist is mostly inside any research.

for example http://www.sciviews.org/. was broken since the new version
2.?? (I think so). But if there would be a defined interface between the
GUIs and R the developer of this interface must only change one
interface instead all developer of the  GUIs must change their GUIs
If i remember then I it was a great improvement of Linux in the past
after there was a GUI available which was like windows. This was a great
step for the acceptance of LINUX. I think this would be the same for R.
but there must be a stable interface for GUI programmers available before.
Hope this could clarify my suggestion :-)

Regards Knut



[Rd] Project suggestion: Interface between R and graphic devices
Knut Krueger