Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations

2005-10-22 Thread Peter Kleiweg
Philippe Grosjean schreef op de 22e dag van de wijnmaand van het jaar 2005: > ... A couple of screenshots of your GUI would help those who don't have time > to download and install your software to visualize what you did. I did today: http://www.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/L04/pyL04/ -- Peter Kleiweg

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

2005-10-22 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Walter, With the various answers you got to your "simple" question, you notice that there are several ways to feed commands into R and retrieve the results. If you just need to occasionnally feed commands that does not take a long time to process, and can afford to frozen your GUI during those

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations

2005-10-22 Thread Philippe Grosjean
... A couple of screenshots of your GUI would help those who don't have time to download and install your software to visualize what you did. Best, Philippe Grosjean ..<°}))>< ) ) ) ) ) ( ( ( ( (Prof. Philippe Grosjean ) ) ) ) ) ( ( ( (

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

2005-10-21 Thread Kasper Daniel Hansen
On Oct 21, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Peter Kleiweg wrote: > James Wettenhall schreef op de 21e dag van de wijnmaand van het > jaar 2005: > > >> We may have to agree to disagree about some things, but I hope >> this has made my point of view a little clearer. >> > > Actually, your elaborate response mak

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

2005-10-21 Thread Peter Kleiweg
James Wettenhall schreef op de 21e dag van de wijnmaand van het jaar 2005: > We may have to agree to disagree about some things, but I hope > this has made my point of view a little clearer. Actually, your elaborate response makes much sense to me. I understand now that it is not just about re

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)

2005-10-20 Thread Byron Ellis
On Oct 20, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Walter Johnston wrote: > > And the question: > > Is there a "simple" way (e.g. some socket based mechanism) to > feed commands into R and retrieve the results of those commands? > This would require that I program the sequence of commands I > want to use (or a means

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

2005-10-20 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On 10/20/05, Walter Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a "simple" way (e.g. some socket based mechanism) to > feed commands into R and retrieve the results of those commands? > This would require that I program the sequence of commands I > want to use (or a means to generate them) an

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

2005-10-20 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/20/2005 12:21 PM, Walter Johnston wrote: > And the question: > > Is there a "simple" way (e.g. some socket based mechanism) to > feed commands into R and retrieve the results of those commands? > This would require that I program the sequence of commands I > want to use (or a means to gene

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

2005-10-20 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
> Is there a "simple" way (e.g. some socket based mechanism) to > feed commands into R and retrieve the results of those commands? > This would require that I program the sequence of commands I > want to use (or a means to generate them) and then be able parse > the resulting structure - I understa

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

2005-10-20 Thread Jeffrey J. Hallman
> "b" == Byron Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: b> On Oct 19, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Jeffrey J. Hallman wrote: >> If you're looking for a GUI toolkit that: >> >> 1. Is cross-platform, >> 2. Has a good collection of widgets that look good on all >> platforms, and >> 3. Is easy to

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

2005-10-20 Thread Jeffrey . J . Hallman
Walter Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10/20/2005 12:21:09 PM: > A couple of non-flame comments and a question - > > (1) I have used Smalltalk in various forms and recommend it > highly as an environment (try Squeak for a free implementation); > it is the origin of the model-view-controlle

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

2005-10-20 Thread Walter Johnston
A couple of non-flame comments and a question - (1) I have used Smalltalk in various forms and recommend it highly as an environment (try Squeak for a free implementation); it is the origin of the model-view-controller paradigm for interaction with a GUI. Tcl/Tk is also nice with its event-driven

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations

2005-10-20 Thread David Meyer
Philippe, > > I CC: this mail directly to the User!2006 organizing committee, > because it is a direct call asking for such a session. Regarding the > organizer, > I wouldn't propose names... someone from the R developer's team, or > a > key person in R GUIs topics... This topic should cer

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations

2005-10-20 Thread Liaw, Andy
> From: Philippe Grosjean > > Duncan, > > I agree totally with you on all points, now that we clarified our > respective ideas. I am afraid I probably agree also with your last > point, from a theoretical point-of-view ("I still think we need more > glue and am working on that while we continu

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

2005-10-20 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
> If you want users to be productive, you have to give them > something they can easily incorporate within the tools they use > on a daily basis. No big applications with everything locked in, > but a set of programs or commands that do specific tasks, with > an easy to understand input and output.

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

2005-10-20 Thread Peter Kleiweg
James Wettenhall schreef op de 20e dag van de wijnmaand van het jaar 2005: [...] > providing a GUI to them, getting started in R is less > intimidating for them, so then we can hopefully spend less > time doing mundane numerical computing tasks for our > collaborators and have more time to do o

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations

2005-10-20 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Byron Ellis wrote: > [...] > Contrary to popular belief the speed of R's interpreter is rarely the > limiting factor to R's speed. People treating R like C is typically > the limiting factor. You have vector operations, USE THEM. Hey! I vote for a 'fortune' here! > [...] Otherwise, the disc

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)

2005-10-19 Thread Byron Ellis
And I so wanted to stay out of this particular discussion, I hope you're proud of what you've done. *cracks knuckles* Right, lets get to it then. On Oct 19, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Jeffrey J. Hallman wrote: > If you're looking for a GUI toolkit that: > >1. Is cross-platform, >2. Has a go

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

2005-10-19 Thread Peter Kleiweg
> On Oct 19, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Jeffrey J. Hallman wrote: > > There is a better way, and that is to give up on R. Start > > over with a better programming environment, one that is > > object oriented, as flexible and dynamic as R, is cross > > platform, easy to program in, and has decent GUI

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

2005-10-19 Thread Jeffrey J. Hallman
> "K" == Kasper Daniel Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: K> On Oct 19, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Jeffrey J. Hallman wrote: K> >> Think about it. Once you have a basic math package that can handle >> matrix >> programming and various mathematical functions, building the various >> sta

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

2005-10-19 Thread Jan De Leeuw
Ah. Let the language wars begin. Although I agree that going with R is basically a sad mistake http://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php?vol=13 giving up on R/S is no longer an option, I hope. Too much investment from the community. Reculer pour mieux sauter, indeed. On Oct 19, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Jeffre

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

2005-10-19 Thread Jeffrey J. Hallman
If you're looking for a GUI toolkit that: 1. Is cross-platform, 2. Has a good collection of widgets that look good on all platforms, and 3. Is easy to work with from R then it is hopeless. There is no such toolkit. As one poster mentioned, most of the better GUI toolkits are very ob

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations

2005-10-18 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Philippe Grosjean wrote: > Hello Marc and the others (and the User!2006 organizing commitee), > > I answer to Marc's email, because I think it is the most constructive > one. I am a little bit dissapointed that the discussion about R GUIs, > whate

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations

2005-10-18 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Hello Marc and the others (and the User!2006 organizing commitee), I answer to Marc's email, because I think it is the most constructive one. I am a little bit dissapointed that the discussion about R GUIs, whatever the initial subject, inevitably shifts to an endless discussion about which gra

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations

2005-10-17 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Duncan, I agree totally with you on all points, now that we clarified our respective ideas. I am afraid I probably agree also with your last point, from a theoretical point-of-view ("I still think we need more glue and am working on that while we continue to experiment with the design of GUIs

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations

2005-10-17 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Philippe. I am sorry that you are upset by what I wrote. I did not intend to cause offense. And I was not considering you as "just a professor only interested by the results of your students". However, the discussion has unfortunately degenerat

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations

2005-10-17 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Duncan, Could you, please, stop considering me as just a professor in biostatistics only interested by the results of my students and nothing else. Do you need a couple of evidences that I am working with other people, other applications, and that they require totally different GUIs? Here they

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

2005-10-17 Thread Peter Dalgaard
Hin-Tak Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Since you mentioned tcltk2 and python+wxWidgets, what about Tkinter > (python's built-in binding to tk)? It is somewhere between the two, > and is shipped as standard these days with python 2.x. Also, if Perl/Tk > works, and Tkinter works, ther

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)

2005-10-17 Thread Richard Haney
For example, there is a need in proteomics for a special-purpose proteomics-based statistical graphics engine and GUI. In this context, for example, over this past year SAS has released a special-purpose plotting engine built on top of their JMP system, that I believe is very good. One wou

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

2005-10-17 Thread John Fox
Dear Marc et al., As the author of an R GUI, I've been following this thread with interest. I think that both a session at the UseR! conference and a more informal meeting to provide an opportunity for discussion are a great idea. It's hard to make much progress on this kind of issue via email d

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations

2005-10-17 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi Philippe, > I answer to Marc's email, because I think it is the most constructive > one. I am a little bit dissapointed that the discussion about R GUIs, > whatever the initial subject, inevitably shifts to an endless discussion > about which graphical toolkit to use, and whether one should int

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

2005-10-17 Thread Dan Putler
Hi All, While I don't have the "sweat equity" that either Philippe Grosjean and James Wettenhall have in developing R GUI's, I have been involved in two different projects (obveRsive as part of the founding development team, and R Commander as a contributor) over the past three years. In a

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

2005-10-16 Thread A.J. Rossini
Interesting. So, we've got lots of people that want GUIs, lots of variants with existing prototypes, and lots of clamor for skilled collaborators. As most of the work has seemed to be of the "I know this, and this is what I want to do", it will be interesting to see how it shakes out. I've still

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

2005-10-16 Thread Marc Schwartz
Greetings all, While recognizing that "this is easier said, than done", is there any logic in suggesting that for those who might be interested, a specific R GUI session of sorts be added to the UseR! 2006 meeting schedule? Since some quorum of interested GUI users may be planning to attend the m

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations

2005-10-16 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote: > Hi, > > >>Qt is C++, cross-platform using native widgets on OS X and Win and (since >>more recently) available without fee or license woes provided it is used >>for GPL'ed code. >> >>So it satisfies both the requirement to make it look and feel native >>whereever p

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

2005-10-16 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi, > Qt is C++, cross-platform using native widgets on OS X and Win and (since > more recently) available without fee or license woes provided it is used > for GPL'ed code. > > So it satisfies both the requirement to make it look and feel native > whereever possible, and satisfies the preference

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

2005-10-16 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 16 October 2005 at 14:04, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: | whereas I have seen some Qt-based ones I really liked. Qt is C++, cross-platform using native widgets on OS X and Win and (since more recently) available without fee or license woes provided it is used for GPL'ed code. So it satisfies b

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

2005-10-16 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Duncan Temple Lang wrote: > I think it is a little premature to entirely discount > Gtk2, especially if it is based on Philippe's remark > below. Philippe, did you try other applications, > different themes, different configurations, or just the vanilla GIMP? > and when? Whil

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations

2005-10-16 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Hello James, Duncan and the others, There are interesting arguments in your posts. I think I must react to one of Duncan's considerations: "Philippe, while you think that people are to individualistic in their development of GUIs, I think perhaps a better interpretation is that many of us are

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

2005-10-15 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think it is a little premature to entirely discount Gtk2, especially if it is based on Philippe's remark below. Philippe, did you try other applications, different themes, different configurations, or just the vanilla GIMP? and when? While I don't

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations

2005-10-15 Thread Duncan Murdoch
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > I notice that there is some discussion on this at > http://developer.r-project.org/ under the links involving the > word threading. Thus using the facilities of another language > seems to be one approach and building such facilities into > R itself another. > > On 10/

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations

2005-10-15 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
I notice that there is some discussion on this at http://developer.r-project.org/ under the links involving the word threading. Thus using the facilities of another language seems to be one approach and building such facilities into R itself another. On 10/15/05, Philippe Grosjean <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Rd] [R-gui] R GUI considerations

2005-10-15 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > The preferred solutions in the post all seem to involve another language: > > - tcl to use tk > - Python to use wxWidgets > > and other solutions mentioned also seem to involve other languages: > > - Visual Basic > - Java (Swing?) > > Is there some key missing featur