Recommendations for a quick UI.
Hi,
The following idea only partially answers your question....
I have successfully written a GUI using the tcl/tk package that ships
with standard R. It is then possible (in Windows) to create a shortcut
icon that runs the following command:
C:\R\R-2.8.1\bin\R.exe --vanilla -e library(SuperCurveGUI);sc();
Note two features:
[1] the first part of the -e switch loads the library containing the GUI
[2] the second part (after the semicolon) launches the GUI
If you make a "normal" shortcut this way, a batch window will open
showing the ongoing R session, which is not quite what you want.
However, if you adjust the shortcut to "Run: Minimized", then (most)
users will never see the batch window, and will only see the GUI.
The reasons that this only partially answers your question are
[1] It is Windows-specific
[2] I do not know how to set up the shortcut automatically upon
installation.
Kevin
Alex Bokov wrote:
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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