From chris.jackson at imperial.ac.uk  Wed Feb 25 15:21:43 2004
From: chris.jackson at imperial.ac.uk (Chris Jackson)
Date: Wed Feb 25 15:21:48 2004
Subject: [Rd] Script editor for Windows GUI
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Peter Dalgaard wrote:

>Chris Jackson <chris.jackson@imperial.ac.uk> writes:
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>>editor.   I think it would be a good selling point if the equivalent
>>existed for R, without the need to use an external editor (or a hack
>>in Tcl/Tk).
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>Why is that a "hack"? I really must object. 
>
>Tcl/Tk is a GUI framework with a text editing widget which can be
>trivially used for this kind of purpose (the same is likely true for
>other GUI frameworks like GTk).
>
>  
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Peter Dalgaard wrote:

>Chris Jackson <chris.jackson@imperial.ac.uk> writes:
>
>  
>
>>editor.   I think it would be a good selling point if the equivalent
>>existed for R, without the need to use an external editor (or a hack
>>in Tcl/Tk).
>>    
>>
>
>Why is that a "hack"? I really must object. 
>
>Tcl/Tk is a GUI framework with a text editing widget which can be
>trivially used for this kind of purpose (the same is likely true for
>other GUI frameworks like GTk).
>  
>
Sorry, wrong choice of word - no disrespect meant to the work you've 
done with R-Tcl/Tk.  I think I meant more "grafted-on".   Rgui itself is 
not written in Tcl/Tk - so to require installing a whole new GUI 
framework for such a fundamental task as editing R code seems a somewhat 
over-the-top solution.  Rather the strength of  Tcl/Tk seems more for 
building your own customised GUIs.    R for Gnome, on the other hand, is 
written in gtk, but I've never used this so I don't know about its 
editing capability.

Chris

-- 
Christopher Jackson <chris.jackson@imperial.ac.uk>, Research Associate,
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College
School of Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, tel. 020 759 43371


[Rd] Script editor for Windows GUI
Chris Jackson