Re: [Rd] Script editor for Windows GUI

2004-02-27 Thread Luke Tierney
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Simon Urbanek wrote: On Feb 26, 2004, at 11:58 AM, Marsland, John wrote: Is you project based upon the SJava package, because we have had lots of problems with the callback interface? No, we are not using SJava for obvious reasons. I tried hard to fix it, but

RE: [Rd] Script editor for Windows GUI

2004-02-26 Thread Philippe Grosjean
Chris Jackson wrote: I've been using the graphapp stuff that's already there, which is out of date, and not very tidy or flexible, but it does this (simple) job. CodeMax sounds nice for code editing, but wouldn't there be a problem with using proprietary tools to develop R? I see they allow you

Re: [Rd] Script editor for Windows GUI

2004-02-26 Thread Uwe Ligges
Simon Urbanek wrote: On Feb 26, 2004, at 11:58 AM, Marsland, John wrote: Is you project based upon the SJava package, because we have had lots of problems with the callback interface? No, we are not using SJava for obvious reasons. I tried hard to fix it, but for some platforms that is

Re: [Rd] Script editor for Windows GUI

2004-02-26 Thread A.J. Rossini
Simon Urbanek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone here use JEdit? I had a really quick look at it and it looks like a copy of Emacs ... which is a pity, because one could do much better with Java ;). No one can do better than Emacs. Re auto-completion: auto-completing keywords is ok, but

Re: [Rd] Script editor for Windows GUI

2004-02-26 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Feb 26, 2004, at 11:58 AM, Marsland, John wrote: Is you project based upon the SJava package, because we have had lots of problems with the callback interface? No, we are not using SJava for obvious reasons. I tried hard to fix it, but for some platforms that is impossible w/o complete

Re: [Rd] Script editor for Windows GUI

2004-02-25 Thread Chris Jackson
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

Re: [Rd] Script editor for Windows GUI

2004-02-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Simon, That's very interesting, but as you know Java installation can be quite problematic. (It looks like the current Sun JVM 1.4.2_03 has several issues, including not working with the R search engine, and a warning on mozilla.org about its Windows plugin.) We bundled a version of Tcl/Tk

Re: [Rd] Script editor for Windows GUI

2004-02-25 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Feb 25, 2004, at 4:52 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: That's very interesting, but as you know Java installation can be quite problematic. (It looks like the current Sun JVM 1.4.2_03 has several issues, including not working with the R search engine, and a warning on mozilla.org about its

Re: [Rd] Script editor for Windows GUI

2004-02-25 Thread Chris Jackson
Philippe Grosjean wrote: Chris, I don't know what you already did or not, but there is an excellent starting basis for an editor, and it is independent from graphapp, very powerful, and very easy to use (and stable!), it is called CodeMax (http://www.winmain.com). There is both a dll and a COM

Re: [Rd] Script editor for Windows GUI

2004-02-25 Thread A.J. Rossini
I do not see that as a problem; I've had reasonable luck running SJava visualization code from Orca and ROrca remotely (over 1000bT), and VNC works as well for that, but you are right, have to pay attention to screen color depth. Now whether SJava can be used for a stable system is a completely