Re: [rkward-devel] a new approach to external plugins

2011-08-11 Thread meik michalke
hi, am Donnerstag 11 August 2011 (18:22) schrieb meik michalke: > well, i'll try to write at least the paste() based function in the > meantime ;-) done. i uploaded a new file to rkward/rbackend/rpackages/rkward/R, called "rk.write.about.R". it contains four functions - rk.write.about() # the

Re: [rkward-devel] a new approach to external plugins

2011-08-11 Thread meik michalke
hi, Am Donnerstag, 11. August 2011, 17:58:43 schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier: > hm, I don't like the thought of having a duplicate structure, if we can > reasonably avoid it. If users start to mix editing by hand and editing via > a function, this will lead to inconsistencies. yeah, i don't find

Re: [rkward-devel] a new approach to external plugins

2011-08-11 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi, On Thursday 11 August 2011, meik michalke wrote: > yes, for the writing part paste()ing it together should be easy. in case we > want to go the other direction and read/parse the XML tree, reliably > writing that ourselves would be a little more demanding. > > it would be helpful to have an u

Re: [rkward-devel] a new approach to external plugins

2011-08-11 Thread meik michalke
hi, Am Donnerstag, 11. August 2011, 09:29:20 schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier: > On Thursday 11 August 2011, meik michalke wrote: > > yes, that was exactly where i was going. it would also be nice to have a > > simple dialog for that, where you could type in some basic info. > > True. And that dial

Re: [rkward-devel] a new approach to external plugins

2011-08-11 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
On Thursday 11 August 2011, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote: > True. And that dialog itself could be implemented as a plugin, I think. Actually, one thing that is missing, before this can be implemented as a plugin, cleanly, is a facility to define "sets" of options, e.g. to allow specification of

Re: [rkward-devel] a new approach to external plugins

2011-08-11 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
On Thursday 11 August 2011, meik michalke wrote: > > You mention producing this info by a script, and I think it would really > > be a good idea to have something roughly equivalent to > > package.skeleton() for rkward plugins, indeed. > > yes, that was exactly where i was going. it would also be