using GUI
Watkins, Janice <WatkinsJ at orau.gov> writes:
A few days ago I loaded R version 1.4.1 to run on Windows 98 and haven't been able to find information on the GUI approach in the FAQs, R Reference Index, or Search Engine . Edit has an item that allows changing GUI preferences, and the Target path in the icon ends in Rgui.exe, so it appears that R for Windows does include using the GUI approach.
The "GUI" is the scrollable terminal window, multiple graphical devices, and the menus (RGUI.EXE). There is also a "terminal" interface version (RTERM.EXE) which is a text only application.
In S-Plus I wrote a application with guiCreate to add menu items that used dialog boxes to feed parameters to analysis functions. Also, I sometimes use the graphics toolbar item in S-Plus to create graphs. Is it possible to do these things in R? If so, would someone please point me to the appropriate area of documentation.
Those functions are not available in R but there is a package (tcltk) which allows you to create 'buttons and boxes' style font-ends to functions. This is pretty versatile and supports a wide range of graphical widgets. I like this approach as TK is open source and cross- platform. The tcltk package requires TCL/TK to be installed on your machine. I have not used S-PLUS for a long time but I am pretty sure that you should be able to do most of what you want with the tcltk package.
By the way, using the "Keywords by Topic" section of the Search Engine works fine for all items that I've tried except when clicking on dynamic under Graphics. That gave the message "No matches for "dynamic" found.""
Interaction with graphs is limited in R. I have seen it linked to XGOBI and a GIS system doing some pretty dynamic stuff but, I think, getting it all running together might be tricky. Mark -- Mark Myatt -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._