R GUI question
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:56 PM, jeffreya <jeff_a_10487 at yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi. I'm looking to create a user-friendly program built around some R methods I've written. The program should be as easy to install and use as possible and will be built around a GUI. This program will be cross-platform; that's crucial. I'm familiar with Java and its GUI packages, I've been looking at the JRI package (interfaces R with Java) but I'm a little uneasy about asking my users to go through its installation (necessitates mingw, among other things, in Windows). Though, once installed, it could work very well.
rJava/JRI does not require mingw. It's just a matter of installing Java (which many users have already) and the rJava package.
I have a little exposure to Tcl/TK. Though I'm not as big of a fan of this as I am of Java, I could suck it up and use it, but I'm not sure that its installation is a whole lot simpler? What, in your experience, is the easiest way to accomplish something like this? To recapitulate, my criteria are: 1.) Easy installation 2.) Ease of use (GUI) 3.) Interface with functions written in R 4.) Cross-platform
I would suggest using the gWidgets package, an abstraction over RGtk2 (best supported by gWidgets but requires user to install the cross-platform GTK+ library), tcltk and rJava/Swing. All the backends are cross-platform and support callbacks into R. The user may choose which backend to use. So if they want a slicker GUI they could install GTK+ and RGtk2 or they could just use the built-in support for tcl/tk.
I'm willing to learn a new language (scripting or otherwise) if necessary.
gWidgets would only require you to know R.
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