>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:21:43 +0000 writes:
Chris> Peter Dalgaard wrote:
>> Chris Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> editor. I think it would be a good selling point if the equivalent
>>> existed for R, without the need to use an external editor (or a hack
>>> in Tcl/Tk).
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Why is that a "hack"? I really must object.
>>
>> Tcl/Tk is a GUI framework with a text editing widget which can be
>> trivially used for this kind of purpose (the same is likely true for
>> other GUI frameworks like GTk).
Chris> Sorry, wrong choice of word - no disrespect meant to
Chris> the work you've done with R-Tcl/Tk. I think I meant
Chris> more "grafted-on". Rgui itself is not written in
Chris> Tcl/Tk - so to require installing a whole new GUI
Chris> framework for such a fundamental task as editing R
Chris> code seems a somewhat over-the-top solution.
you would be right iff ....
- AFAIK you can't easily have a newer version of R for windows
without tcltk -- hence it's there anyway
- the Bioconductor project (and others as well, notably John
Fox' R Cmdr) have extended on the basic tcltk functionality
for many GUI tasks.
tcltk (or Gtk !) have the big advantage of working cross-platform.
This is a very important point since it eases maintainability,
documentation, teaching, .... and development considerably.
Chris> Rather the strength of Tcl/Tk seems more for building your
Chris> own customised GUIs. R for Gnome, on the other hand,
Chris> is written in gtk, but I've never used this so I
Chris> don't know about its editing capability.
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