On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:56:13PM -0700, jeffreya wrote: > > Hi. > > I'm looking to create a user-friendly program built around some R methods > I've written. The program should be as easy to install and use as possible > and will be built around a GUI. This program will be cross-platform; that's > crucial. > > I'm familiar with Java and its GUI packages, I've been looking at the JRI > package (interfaces R with Java) but I'm a little uneasy about asking my > users to go through its installation (necessitates mingw, among other > things, in Windows). Though, once installed, it could work very well. > > I have a little exposure to Tcl/TK. Though I'm not as big of a fan of this > as I am of Java, I could suck it up and use it, but I'm not sure that its > installation is a whole lot simpler?
Should be. It comes with R. I believe that it is still the only cross-platform solution that requires nothing, but the base R installation. > What, in your experience, is the easiest way to accomplish something like > this? > > To recapitulate, my criteria are: > 1.) Easy installation Tcl/Tk wins here, IMHO. > 2.) Ease of use (GUI) Tcl/Tk is not the most modern GUI, so it might be a little clumsy. > 3.) Interface with functions written in R That's no problem for any of the R GUI options, i believe. > 4.) Cross-platform Tcl/Tk is. Furthermore, Tcl/Tk is quite poorly documented, even if you can usually use its "normal" (not R) documentation. Sometimes it is hard to find the right way of doing things. Gabor > I'm willing to learn a new language (scripting or otherwise) if necessary. > > Thanks so much. > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/R-GUI-question-tp16149624p16149624.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Csardi Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UNIL DGM ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
