R help - Aug 2008 - graphical user interface

Hi there,

I would like to design a graphical user interface to provide the functionality 
of my R-scripts to other users (not knowing anything about R...)
Can anybody give me some hints which possibilities I have (advantages / 
disadvantages)?
What do you use to build applications?

Ciao,
Antje

There is quite a few discussions on this in the list archives,
particularly on the R-SIG-GUI mailing list.

It would help to know something about your application...
* how complex is it?
* how are the results to be presented?
* is it intended to be used be only a few people in one location, or many?
* what platforms does it need to work on?
etc

but in many cases I think gWidgets is a good choice.


On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Antje <niederlein-rstat at yahoo.de>
wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I would like to design a graphical user interface to provide the
> functionality of my R-scripts to other users (not knowing anything about
> R...)
> Can anybody give me some hints which possibilities I have (advantages /
> disadvantages)?
> What do you use to build applications?
>
> Ciao,
> Antje
>
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On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Antje wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I would like to design a graphical user interface to provide the 
> functionality of my R-scripts to other users (not knowing anything about 
> R...)
> Can anybody give me some hints which possibilities I have (advantages / 
> disadvantages)?
Can you first give us the hints the posting guide asked you for?  What OS, 
what sort of GUI, what sort of application?
> What do you use to build applications?
If you look on CRAN/BioC you will see that most people use Tcl/Tk, a few
use RGtk2, and you can also embed R into an alternative front-end (we've 
done that via Visual Basic, some people link to Excel ....).

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