Hi! Just a quick note to let you know that I picked up development of RKWard again and perpared a new release. If you're interested, you can have a look at: http://rkward.sourceforge.net What it is: RKWard is developed using KDE/Qt and therefore - unfortunately - it is platform dependent. It now uses PHP to generate R-code from GUI-settings and also to generate pretty (HTML-)output from the R-output. New features can be added as plugins without the need to recompile. Thomas
[R-gui] RKWard revived, release 0.2.0 is out
4 messages · Thomas Friedrichsmeier, James Wettenhall, Philippe GROSJEAN
Hi, R GUI users/developers using the _Windows_ operating system may be interested in this: http://bioinf.wehi.edu.au/folders/james/Require/ install.packages("Require", contriburl="http://bioinf.wehi.edu.au/folders/james/Require") Following on from some recent discussion relating to John Fox's Rcmdr (and my GUI packages limmaGUI and affylmGUI), I've now written a GUI version of require(package), using GraphApp, the GUI toolkit which Rgui for Windows is implemented in. If the required package is already installed, my function Require(...) should behave exactly as require(...) does. But if the required package is missing, the user should be guided through possible installation sources: (CRAN, Bioconductor, local repository, or local zip file), with some dialogs and message boxes. Let me know whether it works for you, and whether you think this sort of thing would be useful. I can try to write a platform-independent version (Tcl/Tk?) as well. But I think the GraphApp version feels more 'native' for Windows Rgui users. It doesn't yet use any of the reposTools functions from Bioconductor, but I may try to implement them at some stage. Regards, James
This is excellent. Thank you James!
Errors due to missing package is a big problem with beginners... now there
is a solution. However, since the Require package is not in the standard
distribution of R, it is still complex to use because you have to check in
your code if (1) it is running under Windows, and (2) if the Require package
is installed... and using Require(Require) is not especially useful ;-)
So, it would be nice if the GUI extension was introduced right in the
standard require() function. Do you intend to propose such a thing to the R
core team?
Best,
Philippe
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Wettenhall
Sent: Monday, 02 August, 2004 14:01
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Subject: [R-gui] Windows/GraphApp require package GUI
Hi,
R GUI users/developers using the _Windows_ operating system
may be interested in this:
http://bioinf.wehi.edu.au/folders/james/Require/
install.packages("Require",
contriburl="http://bioinf.wehi.edu.au/folders/james/Require")
Following on from some recent discussion relating to John
Fox's Rcmdr (and my GUI packages limmaGUI and affylmGUI), I've
now written a GUI version of require(package), using GraphApp,
the GUI toolkit which Rgui for Windows is implemented in. If
the required package is already installed, my function
Require(...) should behave exactly as require(...) does.
But if the required package is missing, the user should be
guided through possible installation sources:
(CRAN, Bioconductor, local repository, or local zip file),
with some dialogs and message boxes.
Let me know whether it works for you, and whether you think this
sort of thing would be useful. I can try to write a
platform-independent version (Tcl/Tk?) as well. But I think
the GraphApp version feels more 'native' for Windows Rgui
users.
It doesn't yet use any of the reposTools functions from
Bioconductor, but I may try to implement them at some stage.
Regards,
James
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Hi Philippe,
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Philippe Grosjean wrote:
So, it would be nice if the GUI extension was introduced right in the standard require() function. Do you intend to propose such a thing to the R core team?
Yes, I do understand that a Require package to help with missing packages is not much use if the Require package itself is missing. So I would hope that something like this could be distributed with R (at least on Windows) at some stage. But I know that the R core team don't add in contributions which aren't thoroughly tested, so I thought I'd try the R-SIG-GUI list first to get some feedback and begin testing / quality assurance before proposing it to R-core. (Of course, GraphApp may be replaced with another GUI toolkit at some stage, but I think it's still alive for R 2.0.0 for Windows.) Our webserver, bioinf.wehi.edu.au (where I have the package) may go offline briefly to install some new hardware today or tomorrow. Philippe, of course I'd be happy to collaborate with you to make this sort of thing as easy as possible to integrate with SciViews. Regards, James