Alex,
Kevin R. Coombes wrote:
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.
depending on how deep you want to dig into programming (aside from R), you could use any COM client (on Windows), e.g., Visual Basic, C# using statconnDCOM (just download and install the package rcom) or using Java (RServe) Thomas