R help - May 2001 - TR: Scripting capabilities for R

>>>>> "PG" == Philippe Grosjean <phgrosje at
ulb.ac.be> writes:
    PG> I am interested by your list of students wishes, since I am
    PG> developing a GPL user interface for math/stat calculation
    PG> engines (among others: R and Splus, but also Octave, Scilab
    PG> and Mathematica,...). It will run under Windows only (for the
    PG> moment), but will be able to interact with calculation engines
    PG> on other computers in the network, including Unix/Linux
    PG> boxes. Do your students asked for some more specific features?


A.J. Rossini wrote:
>These feature are exactly what ESS does (and more), except that it
>runs today, and it happens to use Emacs (and the interface, at least
>under XEmacs, is undergoing revision for friendlyness, including
>features such as "summary tooltips", toolbars (with "click
and
>execute", "switch source/log files" currently existing for
SAS in
>development code), etc...).
If you are happy with ESS, then you are a lucky man because you certainly
have all what you need! I am not happy with it. Emacs is the kingdom of
text. Text buffers everywhere. I believe in the power of graphics in stats(I
mean interactive graphics in the user interface, not just separate static
graphic windows). I you have tried the new Matlab 6.0 user interface for
Window, you'll know what I am talking about! That's what I am doing. It
is
not ESS/Emacs. It is different.
Best regards,

Philippe Grosjean


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>>>>> "PG" == Philippe Grosjean <phgrosje at
ulb.ac.be> writes:
    PG> If you are happy with ESS, then you are a lucky man because
    PG> you certainly have all what you need! I am not happy with
    PG> it. Emacs is the kingdom of text. Text buffers everywhere. 

XEmacs does have the ability to display graphics.  

Dynamic graphics, well, integration there is a systems thing.  people
are working on that.  One cross-platform interface (to R, and via
unsafe extensions, to XLispStat) is Orca, which does what you
describe, and can be controlled.

Why would you construct a GPL'd interface for MatLab?

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