From maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch  Mon Jun  1 15:21:10 2009
From: maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch (Martin Maechler)
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 15:21:10 +0200
Subject: [Rd] Recommendations for a quick UI.
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>>>>> "AB" == Alex Bokov <bokov at uthscsa.edu>
>>>>>     on Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:24:58 -0500 writes:

    AB> Hi. This is my first post to this list, I seem to be
    AB> graduating to from the r-help list. :-)

well....

    AB> I'm trying to wrap my R package in a GUI such that when
    AB> the user launches the app, they see my GUI window and
    AB> never interact with the R console at all. I don't have
    AB> any fancy requirements for the GUI itself-- all it needs
    AB> to do is collect input from the user and pass the input
    AB> as arguments to an R function, which writes the results
    AB> to a file.

    AB> I read the R Extensions Manual section about GUIs, and
    AB> it seems like overkill to write the thing in a compiled
    AB> language and link against R as a library when there are
    AB> dozens of different interpreted cross-platform GUI
    AB> toolkits out there. Does anybody know of any functioning
    AB> examples of packages (or other add-ons) with GUIs that
    AB> run R silently in the background which I can study? Do
    AB> they use the "R CMD BATCH" mechanism, or something else?

There's a dedicated "Special Interest Group" mailing list for
answering / discussing such questions :

	  R-SIG-GUI

Please subscribe and ask there
 --> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-gui

Regards,
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich



[Rd] Recommendations for a quick UI.
Martin Maechler