Re: [Rd] tcltk GUIs (was need gui matrix editor: does R Core team have advice on how?)

2012-01-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 30/01/2012 9:17 AM, Kevin R. Coombes wrote: On 1/29/2012 4:35 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Prof Brian Ripley > wrote: >> On 28/01/2012 22:04, John Fox wrote: >>> Dear Paul and Gabor, >>> >>> The Rcmdr GUI uses the tcltk package, so I have some experience

Re: [Rd] tcltk GUIs (was need gui matrix editor: does R Core team have advice on how?)

2012-01-30 Thread Kevin R. Coombes
On 1/29/2012 4:35 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: On 28/01/2012 22:04, John Fox wrote: Dear Paul and Gabor, The Rcmdr GUI uses the tcltk package, so I have some experience with providing an R tcltk-based GUI for various platforms. As Gabor

Re: [Rd] tcltk GUIs (was need gui matrix editor: does R Core team have advice on how?)

2012-01-29 Thread j verzani
Paul Johnson gmail.com> writes: .. snip .. > I think the idea behind gWidgetstcltk is great, it aims to create R > functions that can use either Gtk2 or tclk. But the implementation is > a big hassle, it seems to me. It inherits all of the management > troubles of both tcltk and Gtk2. For e

Re: [Rd] tcltk GUIs (was need gui matrix editor: does R Core team have advice on how?)

2012-01-29 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Jan 29, 2012, at 5:35 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Prof Brian Ripley > wrote: >> On 28/01/2012 22:04, John Fox wrote: >>> >>> Dear Paul and Gabor, >>> >>> The Rcmdr GUI uses the tcltk package, so I have some experience with >>> providing an R tcltk-based GUI fo

Re: [Rd] tcltk GUIs (was need gui matrix editor: does R Core team have advice on how?)

2012-01-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On 28/01/2012 22:04, John Fox wrote: >> >> Dear Paul and Gabor, >> >> The Rcmdr GUI uses the tcltk package, so I have some experience with >> providing an R tcltk-based GUI for various platforms. >> >> As Gabor says, everything works very

Re: [Rd] tcltk GUIs (was need gui matrix editor: does R Core team have advice on how?)

2012-01-29 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On 28/01/2012 22:04, John Fox wrote: >> >> Dear Paul and Gabor, >> >> The Rcmdr GUI uses the tcltk package, so I have some experience with >> providing an R tcltk-based GUI for various platforms. >> >> As Gabor says, everything works very

Re: [Rd] tcltk GUIs (was need gui matrix editor: does R Core team have advice on how?)

2012-01-29 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 28/01/2012 22:04, John Fox wrote: Dear Paul and Gabor, The Rcmdr GUI uses the tcltk package, so I have some experience with providing an R tcltk-based GUI for various platforms. As Gabor says, everything works very smoothly on Windows because the R Windows binary includes Tcl/Tk. Maybe, bu