Dear Peter, > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Dalgaard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 5:46 AM > To: John Fox > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [R] The hidden costs of GPL software? > > "John Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't think that > > it would be hard (although it would be time-consuming) to produce a > > much broader extension, but the result (in my opinion) would be as > > dubiously useful as the GUIs for SAS or S-PLUS. > > Strategically, that might actually be a valid (and valiant) > design goal! From my limited experience with Rcmdr and SAS > Analyst, I'd say that Rcmdr is almost there, just a few > little niggles like not remembering values from the last time > a form was filled in. >
I've thought about remembering dialog values, but I guess so far I've been too lazy to do it or, to put a better construction on it, too distracted by other things. It shouldn't be hard to do -- just a matter of maintaining a data base of previous entries that are flushed when the active data set changes. Actually, the linear-model and generalized-linear-model dialogs already do this. I'd be interested in the other little niggles as well. > > 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. > > Argh. Please stop poking at my guilty conscience.... Wrapping > Tcl/Tk extensions as R packages has been on my wish list too > for some time, with tktable as the obvious first candidate. > (It's not just on Windows; the default Unix/Linux installs of > Tcl/Tk tend to be pretty minimal too. On Windows we have this > instructive twist on the BSD/GPL debacle, that ActiveState > made a very nice Tcl/Tk distribution with all sorts of > "batteries included", but we cannot bundle it with R as they > are restricting redistribution.) > I certainly don't want to press this issue, since I'm grateful for what you've already done (and it's surprising how much mileage one can get from the basic widget set). I see this as primarily a Windows problem because users of other computing platforms (possibly with the exception of some Mac users) tend to be more sophisticated about installing software. Regards, John > > -- > O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 > c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N > (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: > (+45) 35327918 > ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: > (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [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