On 7/19/06, Philippe Grosjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard M. Heiberger wrote: > > I am thrilled to learn tcltk2 has DDE capability. > > It is the piece I have been needing to make ESS work directly > > with the RGUI on Windows. GNU emacs on Windows has a ddeclient, > > but no access to COM. So if R, or tcltk2 talking in both directions to R, > > has a ddeserver, all should be possible. I will be reading the > > documentation > > closely in a few weeks to tie it together and then intend to make it happen. > > > > Do you, or any other list member, have a sense of the size, complexity, > > ease, > > magnitude of the task I just defined? Any advice as I get started on it? > > > > Rich > > Well, to be honest, DDE is an old exchange protocol (the first one > proposed by M$ in Windows version 1 or 2). It is not that reliable. In > practice, when the communication is working fine, you have no problems > with it. But if something fails in either the server or the client, you > got a very bad behaviour sometimes.
There is a good discussion in this DDE FAQ of when DDE would be preferred and when COM would be: http://www.angelfire.com/biz/rhaminisys/ddeinfo.html#DDEpreferred ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
