Dear Philippe, I was aware of your tcltk2 package and will likely use it (if the standard widget set distributed with R for Windows is not expanded) when it becomes cross-platform.
Thanks for this. John -------------------------------- John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario Canada L8S 4M4 905-525-9140x23604 http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox -------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: Philippe Grosjean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 3:29 AM > To: 'John Fox'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [R] The hidden costs of GPL software? > > John Fox wrote: > > [...] (sorry, this is long mail, and I want to comment only > details) > > By the way, if there were something I could wish for here > it would be > > a slightly broader set of Tk widgets to be included with the Tcl/Tk > > that installs with R for Windows, since using widgets > outside of this > > set creates installation obstacles for lower-level users. > > Then, take a look at the tcltk2 package in the SciViews > bundle (probably, in the next version, I will take it out of > the bundle). You have there tile (themable widgets with > notebook tabs, progress bar, and many more... and very soon > combo boxes and lists/trees). You have also the famous > tkTable, and a separate combobox and a tree, and a support > for tooltips everywhere... > Just propose if you need more! All this runs under Windows, > but I still got problems to compile it under other platforms. > > > I doubt that many list > > members would look favourably on the statistical-methods "decision > > tree" in MicrOsiris, for example. One solution is to include PDF > > "manuals" with packages. I've done this, for example, with > my effects > > and Rcmdr packages. > > The introductory manual supplied with Thomas Lumley's > survey package > > is another, similar example. Maybe there's a better way of > integrating > > such non-vignette manuals with the help system -- something like > > help(manual=package). > > I tend to have the same opinion than John (although I thing > that both a good manual, and a better online help could be > beneficial): a PDF manual is much more readable than a wiki! > Why not to propose PDF manuals in the \doc section of CRAN > which have a GNU Free Documentation License > (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), so that the manual > could be progressively enhanced by many authors? > > Best, > > Philippe Grosjean > > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html