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 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel