From thomas.baier at logicals.com  Tue Jun  2 14:46:08 2009
From: thomas.baier at logicals.com (Thomas Baier)
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 14:46:08 +0200 
Subject: [Rd] Recommendations for a quick UI.
Message-ID: <405593F1A35DDD11B2B4000C29F5CF530349F2@exchange-server.ow.ks>

Alex,

Kevin R. Coombes wrote:
> The following idea only partially answers your question....
> 
> I have successfully written a GUI using the tcl/tk package
> that ships with standard R. It is then possible (in Windows)
> to create a shortcut icon that runs the following command:
>     C:\R\R-2.8.1\bin\R.exe --vanilla -e
> library(SuperCurveGUI);sc(); Note two features:
> [1] the first part of the -e switch loads the library
> containing the GUI [2] the second part (after the semicolon) launches
> the GUI 
> 
> If you make a "normal" shortcut this way, a batch window will
> open showing the ongoing R session, which is not quite what you want.
> However, if you adjust the shortcut to "Run: Minimized", then
> (most) users will never see the batch window, and will only
> see the GUI.
> 
> The reasons that this only partially answers your question
> are [1] It is Windows-specific [2] I do not know how to set
> up the shortcut automatically upon installation.

depending on how deep you want to dig into programming (aside from R), you
could use any COM client (on Windows), e.g., Visual Basic, C# using
statconnDCOM (just download and install the package rcom) or using Java
(RServe)

Thomas



[Rd] Recommendations for a quick UI.
Thomas Baier