On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:56 PM, jeffreya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. > > I'm looking to create a user-friendly program built around some R methods > I've written. The program should be as easy to install and use as possible > and will be built around a GUI. This program will be cross-platform; that's > crucial. > > I'm familiar with Java and its GUI packages, I've been looking at the JRI > package (interfaces R with Java) but I'm a little uneasy about asking my > users to go through its installation (necessitates mingw, among other > things, in Windows). Though, once installed, it could work very well. >
rJava/JRI does not require mingw. It's just a matter of installing Java (which many users have already) and the rJava package. > I have a little exposure to Tcl/TK. Though I'm not as big of a fan of this > as I am of Java, I could suck it up and use it, but I'm not sure that its > installation is a whole lot simpler? > > What, in your experience, is the easiest way to accomplish something like > this? > > To recapitulate, my criteria are: > 1.) Easy installation > 2.) Ease of use (GUI) > 3.) Interface with functions written in R > 4.) Cross-platform > I would suggest using the gWidgets package, an abstraction over RGtk2 (best supported by gWidgets but requires user to install the cross-platform GTK+ library), tcltk and rJava/Swing. All the backends are cross-platform and support callbacks into R. The user may choose which backend to use. So if they want a slicker GUI they could install GTK+ and RGtk2 or they could just use the built-in support for tcl/tk. > I'm willing to learn a new language (scripting or otherwise) if necessary. > gWidgets would only require you to know R. > Thanks so much. > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/R-GUI-question-tp16149624p16149624.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.