Thanks for posting this list. I just want to clarify one place where you quote me:
On 10/29/2006 11:54 AM, Philippe Grosjean wrote: ... deletions > - To execute R code contained in a string and return the result of this > evaluation in a string (including presentation of error messages and > warnings) exactly as if this was entered at the prompt. Duncan Murdoch > is against such a kind of function (he says a GUI should not substitute > to the R interpreter, and it should manage and present errors or > warnings in a better way than the teletype approach of the command > line). I actually said that a GUI should "be able to" do these things. My only objection to the proposed function is that it's not sufficient. R should supply facilities that make it easy to write that function, by supplying the mechanisms for the GUI to get at everything necessary. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
