On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 25/06/2012 4:13 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> So, just to be blunt: >> >> You like working with tcltk? >> >> I mean, I know your package is written with it, but do like it? Do you >> sometimes wish you were working with QT or GTK? That's the hard >> decision for me at the moment. > > > One advantage of tcltk is that installation is easy: R does it for you on > Windows, and it's likely there on Linux. Only MacOS needs a little user > work, but not much. RGtk2 has improved in the installation of support libs, > but it is still a two-step process on Windows, and I would suspect it will > fail for many users who don't have the right permissions. >
One way that this could be improved would be if tcl/tk and the tcltk R package were included in all R distributions or at least the ones that the R core group has control over. -- Statistics & Software Consulting GKX Group, GKX Associates Inc. tel: 1-877-GKX-GROUP email: ggrothendieck at gmail.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-GUI mailing list R-SIG-GUI@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-gui