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From: Philippe Grosjean [mailto:phgrosjean at sciviews.org]
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 3:29 AM
To: 'John Fox'; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: RE: [R] The hidden costs of GPL software?
John Fox wrote:
[...] (sorry, this is long mail, and I want to comment only
By the way, if there were something I could wish for here
a slightly broader set of Tk widgets to be included with the Tcl/Tk
that installs with R for Windows, since using widgets
set creates installation obstacles for lower-level users.
Then, take a look at the tcltk2 package in the SciViews
bundle (probably, in the next version, I will take it out of
the bundle). You have there tile (themable widgets with
notebook tabs, progress bar, and many more... and very soon
combo boxes and lists/trees). You have also the famous
tkTable, and a separate combobox and a tree, and a support
for tooltips everywhere...
Just propose if you need more! All this runs under Windows,
but I still got problems to compile it under other platforms.
I doubt that many list
members would look favourably on the statistical-methods "decision
tree" in MicrOsiris, for example. One solution is to include PDF
"manuals" with packages. I've done this, for example, with
and Rcmdr packages.
The introductory manual supplied with Thomas Lumley's
is another, similar example. Maybe there's a better way of
such non-vignette manuals with the help system -- something like
help(manual=package).
I tend to have the same opinion than John (although I thing
that both a good manual, and a better online help could be
beneficial): a PDF manual is much more readable than a wiki!
Why not to propose PDF manuals in the \doc section of CRAN
which have a GNU Free Documentation License
(http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), so that the manual
could be progressively enhanced by many authors?
Best,
Philippe Grosjean