[R] question from a beginner

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 hzi at uol.com.br wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 02:02:10PM +0100, Agustin Lobo wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 hzi at uol.com.br wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 06:49:00PM -0500, Ben Bolker wrote:
> > > >
> > > >   No, not really.
> > > >   There are some facilities if you want to *design* GUIs for other people
> > > > to use, e.g. the Tcl/Tk extensions or Rweb (www.math.montana.edu/Rweb/),
> > > > but nothing where you can start from scratch with an arbitrary set of
> > > > data.  R is much more process-oriented: if you know what you want to do
> > > > (linear regression, ANOVA, etc.), it should be fairly easy to find the
> > > > commands that do what you want.  S-PLUS has GUI facilities, although I
> > > > haven't tried them.  I think there is a fairly strong philosophy among
> > > > most R developers that the "right" way to do things is to learn some of
> > > > the underlying foundations so that you can really understand what you are
> > > > doing.  It is easier to go wrong with GUIs -- although there are lots of
> > > > confounding factors, and GUIs can be designed in better or worse ways.
> > > >
> > >
> > > 	As true as it what you've said may be, one sometimes wishes for a little GUI
> > > functionality.
> > > 	If one __were__ to develop (say something with Tk), or any other contribution
> > > in that sense, how could one distribute it)?
> > > 	Little tedious things like summary and histograms...
> > >
> > > 	Cheers,
> > >
> > > 	Henry L
> >
> > I agree, some basic functionality in a menu would be handy, like,
> > for example, being able to print or save displayed graphics or geting a
> > window with an object browser.
> >
> > Agus
> >
> > Dr. Agustin Lobo
>
>
> Dr. Lobo-
>
> 	XLisp-Stat has some very nice functionalities, like choosing to save
> 	the image in PostScript.
>
> 	It wouldn't be bad at all to have that in R...

It isn't bad at all that we have it on the GUI interfaces, then ....
It is on menus under Windows (surely the most used port of R) and I believe
under MacOS and GNOME too.


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