On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Ian Fellows <ian.fell...@stat.ucla.edu>wrote:
> I know there were some rather lengthy discussions on the topic during the > GSOC application process. It is my opinion that programing from within R is > a very good way to get a working GUI quickly, but you are better served > leaving R for something polished and professional looking. > > With Qt and GTK+ available to R, polished and professional GUIs are a real possibility, in my opinion. > ian > > btw, you can also provide menu items for Deducer/JGR regardless of the > toolkit you use. > > > On Jun 9, 2011, at 7:33 AM, David L Lorenz wrote: > > > Sebastian, > > I have found that fgui is a very easy-to-use package for developing > > GUIs. The documentation gives some very good examples to get started. > > Dave > > > > > > > > > > From: > > Sebastian Mellor <seb...@sebble.com> > > To: > > r-sig-gui@r-project.org > > Date: > > 06/08/2011 06:36 AM > > Subject: > > [R-gui] Developing a GUI > > Sent by: > > r-sig-gui-boun...@r-project.org > > > > > > > > Hello all, > > > > I am spending this Summer developing a GUI for the hyperSpec package in > R. > > I have already done some preliminary research but now I am really getting > > started. The full requirements are yet undetermined but we have several > > desires as with most other GUIs, i.e., cross-platform, minimal > > pre-requisites, easy to install. After looking at several available > > packages I am leaning towards gWidgets with either RGtk2 or TclTk layers > > to > > cover most platforms. I am also considering providing basic plugins for > > other packages like RCmdr to add a menu item to initiate any of the main > > GUI > > features. The GUI we are looking to create is not a full featured > > environment, but rather a collection of smaller functions to be chained. > > > > While determining exactly what we require I am going to keep > investigating > > the experience of using various GUI packages. What are your experiences > > with the available packages in terms of installation and reliability when > > making small GUIs or 'widgets'? > > > > One environment I have been using personally for the last couple of > months > > is RStudio (server edition), this has proved extremely useful when > working > > between Uni and home. I believe an API will be released eventually > > allowing > > the menu bar to be extended and I have just discovered that Rook will > work > > from the web interface as it would from the desktop or any other console > > that could spawn a browser window. Does anyone have any experience with > > using a web-based GUI? This is probably out of the scope of my initial > > aims > > but if gWidgets, gWidgetsWWW, rApache, Rook, EXT JS, and the rest of it > > all > > worked together theoretically a gWidgets interface could also work on the > > web server too when using the RStudio console. How unreasonable is this? > > > > Best regards, > > Seb > > > > P.S. Any other comments and suggestions welcome. > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-SIG-GUI mailing list > > R-SIG-GUI@r-project.org > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-gui > > > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-SIG-GUI mailing list > > R-SIG-GUI@r-project.org > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-gui > > > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-GUI mailing list > R-SIG-GUI@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-gui > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-GUI mailing list R-SIG-GUI@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-gui
