[R] Building Custom GUIs for R

[Bert Gunter]

... and yet another, on Windows ONLY and with limited functionality --
which nevertheless sufficed for my unsophisticated needs -- is to use
several built-in R functions in the utils package (the win... ones
courtesy of Duncan Murdoch) that access native Windows functionality.
See

?winMenuAdd
?select.list
?winDialog
?winProgressBar
?choose.files

for some examples and links to others. (select.list and choose.files
are available on all OS's).

Cheers,
Bert

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Barry Rowlingson
<b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 7:52 AM, vioravis <vioravis at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Are there any tools currently available that enable us build GUIs??? (MATLAB
>> has a GUI builder that enables the users build custom GUIs).
>
>  Another option nobody has mentioned yet is to make it a web-based
> system, and generate your dialogs using HTML FORM elements. R comes
> with a basic web server engine now so it might be possible to make it
> all self-contained.
>
>> Can we make a exe of such GUI (with the R code) and let people use it
>> without having to install R???
>
>  That's another FFAQ to which the answer is usually 'no', although you
> can of course distribute R alongside your application (by closely
> following the terms of the R license agreement) and say in your
> install notes "first install R by running setupR.exe" or whatever.
>
> Barry
>
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Bert Gunter
Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics