[R-gui] Re: [R] Feedback about SciViews?

last year or two I've seen some very impressive platform
independent GUI's built with java.

Not for R.  One could argue for Python in the same light, as well. 

I fully agree. Platform-independence is one thing, 
freedom another. R is free-as-in-freedom-software, 
so it would really be a pity not to use a powerful
free-as-in-freedom-language to build R-GUI(s), be it
Python or another one.

This being said, any project to bring R
on any computer in the world is to be praised,
but please let R as such not be contaminated with
a language that doesn't come out of the mouth
of a healthy gnu...

acolyte of service,

Tobias