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. 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. 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."" Thanks for your help. Janice Watkins -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
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6 messages · Watkins, Janice, Brian Ripley, John Fox +1 more
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Watkins, Janice wrote:
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.
Yes, and you *are *using an interface with menus and a toolbar and you can select things with the mouse ... In short, a Graphical User Interface, albeit a simple one. It contrasts with Rterm, in Windows' parlance a console application (a pure-text interface).
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.
R is not a clone of S-PLUS, and does not have a user-programmable GUI under Windows. There are ways to program interfaces, but none as easy to program as the Axum-based front-end of S-PLUS for Windows. Look at the tcltk package and its demos for the simplest approach. If you want the features of S-PLUS, please use it.
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.""
Correct. There is currently no dynamic graphics in R. If you install package xgobi from CRAN it will show some results (but do read all its prerequisites carefully).
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
At 10:27 AM 2/20/2002 -0500, Watkins, Janice wrote:
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.""
Though it's still in a preliminary form, you might be interested in Duncan Murdoch's rgl package, available at <http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/>. John -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Dear Mark and Janice,
At 12:19 PM 2/21/2002 +0000, Mark Myatt wrote:
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.
Actually, I found that it was quite straightforward to get Rggobi to work on a Windows 2000 system (although it occasionally crashes R). Information is available at <http://www.ggobi.org/>. John -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
John, You write:
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.
Actually, I found that it was quite straightforward to get Rggobi to work on a Windows 2000 system (although it occasionally crashes R). Information is available at <http://www.ggobi.org/>.
I shall have to give it a try. These things always look harder in the documentation than they actually are. Thanks, 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._