Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations (was: R, Wine, and multi-threadedness)

2005-10-20 Thread James Wettenhall
Hi again, Peter Kleiweg wrote: > To me, it does not make sense. When I have to work with > something like Word, I am intimidated by lots of buttons with > cryptic icons, with menus and submenus I can't make heads or > tails of, the program doing weird things with my text I don't > understand. A si

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations (was: R, Wine, and multi-threadedness)

2005-10-19 Thread James Wettenhall
Hi Peter and everyone, [Hmmm, didn't I say I was not really interested in spending time getting into these discussions anymore? Oh well, I can't help myself. ;-) ] > Why would you want a GUI for something like R in the first > place? It is a programming language. That is its force. Nothing > bea

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations (was: R, Wine, and multi-threadedness)

2005-10-17 Thread James Wettenhall
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

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations (was: R, Wine, and multi-threadedness)

2005-10-15 Thread James Wettenhall
Hi Philippe and everyone else, As you know, I have certainly spent some time thinking about R-GUIs, and developing some R-Tcl/Tk GUIs - limmaGUI and affylmGUI (available from Bioconductor). I have also spent some time wishing we could use a GUI toolkit with a more modern look and feel. Hence I h

Re: [Rd] [R] Debugging R/Fortran in Windows

2005-09-10 Thread James Wettenhall
Duncan, >> Seth - Thanks for suggesting valgrind. I tried it out, and it correctly >> told me that memory leakage was not the problem (although I didn't >> believe it at first). > > Is there a version of valgrind that works in Windows now, or did you do > this test somewhere else? > > Duncan Murd

Re: [Rd] [R] Debugging R/Fortran in Windows

2005-09-09 Thread James Wettenhall
Thanks very much to Uwe, Duncan and Seth (who replied off the list). Uwe - That section of the R for Windows FAQ was very useful - thanks! Sorry I posted a question involving C/Fortran to R-Help. Duncan - Thanks for all the useful info. I've bookmarked the pages you sent me. Seth - Thanks for