http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/pub now has a compressed disk image with a MacPython-2.3 installer. This gives you R GUI's (more precisely RPy GUI's) based on IDLE (if you want to use Tcl/Tk), on Pycrust (if you want to use wxWindows), and on PythonIDE (if you want to use X11). In all three you can use the quartz device, with the Python GUI's making sure that events are handled the correct way. Moreover you can mix Python, Rpy, Tkinter, wxPython code for maximum flexibility. Unfortunately this implies you cannot use R code, you have to use Rpy code. But you can make your mixed code files into double clickable applications by using the BuildApplet tool. Since I don't want to push 100MB over a phone line, I'll upload the updated R-1.7.0 installer on Tuesday. This will have the ncurses and tcl/tk dylibs that were missing from the first effort. This gives you the terminal and gnome GUI's for R, in which you cannot use quartz, and in which the tcl/tk is strictly X11 based. The third disk image will be Carbon emacs with ESS -- yet another R GUI. The current CVS version does not work properly, I am trying to figure that one out. === Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics; Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical Software US mail: 9432 Boelter Hall, Box 951554, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1554 phone (310)-825-9550; fax (310)-206-5658; email: deleeuw@stat.ucla.edu homepage: http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------- No matter where you go, there you are. --- Buckaroo Banzai http://gifi.stat.ucla.edu/sounds/nomatter.au
MacPython based R interfaces
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