Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > I notice that there is some discussion on this at > http://developer.r-project.org/ under the links involving the > word threading. Thus using the facilities of another language > seems to be one approach and building such facilities into > R itself another. > > On 10/15/05, Philippe Grosjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Gabor Grothendieck wrote: >> >>>The preferred solutions in the post all seem to involve another language: >>> >>>- tcl to use tk >>>- Python to use wxWidgets >>> >>>and other solutions mentioned also seem to involve other languages: >>> >>>- Visual Basic >>>- Java (Swing?) >>> >>>Is there some key missing feature in R with regards to GUIs >>>that requires interposing another language?
I think the Java/C++ style of object oriented programming is particularly well suited to writing GUIs. GUIs contain a lot of objects that need to maintain their state, and that need to respond to messages. The different kinds of objects have a lot in common with one another, and also some specific differences. You don't need an OOP language to write a GUI (the Windows Rgui is written in C, for example), but it makes things easier. You can write R in that style, but it's not the standard style to use, so it's not particularly easy. Duncan Murdoch _______________________________________________ R-SIG-GUI mailing list R-SIG-GUI@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-gui
