Hi, One point I forgot to make last time is that I'm a big fan of prototyping. I have almost no experience whatsoever in Java Swing, but there are plenty of people in the R community who do - e.g. Simon Urbanek and the JGR team. In the past, I have had trouble finding any elegant prototypes (e.g. "Hello, World" applications) interfacing R with Java Swing.
Similarly, I'd love to see "Hello, World" prototypes for R-Qt etc. Of course for many of those GUI systems originally developed for Linux or Unix, there is the question of how reliably you can port them to the most popular operating system in the world and to MacOS X. I love using GIMP under Windows, but how many Windows software developers would say that compiling GTK on Windows (e.g. within an R package) is easy? That's why I liked wxPython/wxWidgets because it didn't attempt the difficult task of porting GTK to Windows - it just uses native Windows widgets on Windows and GTK widgets on Linux. I don't want to emphasize my interest in prototypes too strongly though - I still think that there is a lot of work to be done beyond any prototype. Maybe the successful publication of Rcmdr in the Journal of Statistical Software will give me hope that the academic community will eventually feel more comfortable asking for money to employ people to do some challenging GUI-related software development which may not immediately promise publications within the core research aims of a particular department/institute. Or maybe [horrible thought], some business outside the academic community will provide a very expensive but very good GUI development system for R. Best regards, James ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
