[R] graphical user interface

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Antje wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I would like to design a graphical user interface to provide the 
> functionality of my R-scripts to other users (not knowing anything about 
> R...)
> Can anybody give me some hints which possibilities I have (advantages / 
> disadvantages)?

Can you first give us the hints the posting guide asked you for?  What OS, 
what sort of GUI, what sort of application?

> What do you use to build applications?

If you look on CRAN/BioC you will see that most people use Tcl/Tk, a few
use RGtk2, and you can also embed R into an alternative front-end (we've 
done that via Visual Basic, some people link to Excel ....).

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