Message-ID: <4544DBA5.3000702@stats.uwo.ca>
Date: 2006-10-29T16:49:41Z
From: Duncan Murdoch
Subject: R GUI API: suggestion for R function to put in there?
In-Reply-To: <4544DCDB.3060703@umh.ac.be>
Thanks for posting this list. I just want to clarify one place where
you quote me:
On 10/29/2006 11:54 AM, Philippe Grosjean wrote:
... deletions
> - To execute R code contained in a string and return the result of this
> evaluation in a string (including presentation of error messages and
> warnings) exactly as if this was entered at the prompt. Duncan Murdoch
> is against such a kind of function (he says a GUI should not substitute
> to the R interpreter, and it should manage and present errors or
> warnings in a better way than the teletype approach of the command
> line).
I actually said that a GUI should "be able to" do these things. My only
objection to the proposed function is that it's not sufficient. R
should supply facilities that make it easy to write that function, by
supplying the mechanisms for the GUI to get at everything necessary.
Duncan Murdoch