Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Alex Bokov
> Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 11:25 PM
> To: r-devel at r-project.org
> Subject: [Rd] Recommendations for a quick UI.
>
> Hi. This is my first post to this list, I seem to be graduating to from
> the r-help list. :-)
>
> I'm trying to wrap my R package in a GUI such that when the user
> launches the app, they see my GUI window and never interact with the R
> console at all. I don't have any fancy requirements for the GUI itself-
> -
> all it needs to do is collect input from the user and pass the input as
> arguments to an R function, which writes the results to a file.
>
> I read the R Extensions Manual section about GUIs, and it seems like
> overkill to write the thing in a compiled language and link against R
> as
> a library when there are dozens of different interpreted cross-platform
> GUI toolkits out there. Does anybody know of any functioning examples
> of
> packages (or other add-ons) with GUIs that run R silently in the
> background which I can study? Do they use the "R CMD BATCH" mechanism,
> or something else?
>
> Thanks.
>
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