Re: [Rd] need gui matrix editor: does R Core team have advice on how?

2012-01-28 Thread John Fox
Dear Paul and Gabor, The Rcmdr GUI uses the tcltk package, so I have some experience with providing an R tcltk-based GUI for various platforms. As Gabor says, everything works very smoothly on Windows because the R Windows binary includes Tcl/Tk. On Mac OS X, it's necessary for the user to insta

Re: [Rd] need gui matrix editor: does R Core team have advice on how?

2012-01-28 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > Dear R-devel: > > Would R core team consider endorsing a graphical toolkit and trying to > facilitate development of little GUI tools? > > I need a gui matrix editor for users that want to be able to write > matrices that are later used to sim

[Rd] need gui matrix editor: does R Core team have advice on how?

2012-01-28 Thread Paul Johnson
Dear R-devel: Would R core team consider endorsing a graphical toolkit and trying to facilitate development of little GUI tools? I need a gui matrix editor for users that want to be able to write matrices that are later used to simulate data. Instead of teaching them to write a covariance matrix

Re: [Rd] Silently loading and Depends: versus NAMESPACE imports

2012-01-28 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 28 January 2012 at 16:52, Uwe Ligges wrote: | | | On 27.01.2012 15:57, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | > On 12 January 2012 at 12:12, Hervé Pagès wrote: | > | Hi Dirk, | > | | > | On 01/11/2012 11:42 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > |> | > |> R CMD check really hates it when my .onLoad() func

Re: [Rd] Silently loading and Depends: versus NAMESPACE imports

2012-01-28 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 27.01.2012 15:57, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 12 January 2012 at 12:12, Hervé Pagès wrote: | Hi Dirk, | | On 01/11/2012 11:42 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: |> |> R CMD check really hates it when my .onLoad() function contains |> suppressMessages(library(foo)) | | Note that you can alw