[Rd] Project suggestion: Interface between R and graphic devices

[Knut Krueger]

Hi to all developer,
sure that I will not be the first one with this idea but I did not found 
treads about this.
I realized that there are some user interfaces like Brodgar and SciViews.
There was used a lot of manpower to develop those programs.
On the other side I realized that it could be very helpful to have such 
programs if somebody would like to change the statistical software from 
SPSS or other commercial software to R-Statistic. The first steps would 
be more easy and the acceptance of R would be much more than with the 
command line interpreter.
It would be a great help to introduce R in the institutes, which does 
not use R just now.
One of the features of R is that it is state of the art all the time. If 
anybody would use R version 1.?? because of any graphic devise it would 
not be helpful.

So my suggestion:
Is it possible to define any interface between the R-system and the Gui 
applications, so that the GUIs, but only the interface does  need to 
rebuild if the R-system is changed.

I am out of order with programming since ten years, but it seems (but it 
not sure just now) that I have more time to oversee such a project. But 
I will need a lot of advice the first time.
I was developing the software for medical systems and this would be a 
complete new subject for me.

with regards
Knut Krueger
http://www.biostatistic.de