[R] User Interfaces for R

[Ivan Krylov]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 14:29:22 -0500 (EST)
Bernard McGarvey <mcgarvey.bernard using comcast.net> wrote:

> Can anyone point me to such an easy to use package to create GUIs for
> R?

If you want a traditional approach, a lot of R installations have
Tcl/Tk support built in (i.e. capabilities('tcltk') is TRUE). This
means that you can run library(tcltk) and call Tk functions to display
interactive windows almost everywhere.

This toolkit requires some knowledge of Tk [*] and may not look
particularly nice on some platforms, but is probably already included
in most R installations and has low resource footprint. There is a set
of slides [**] that might help you start using Tk, its widgets and
geometry managers.

R commander (Rcmdr, [***]) package has been developed using Tk.

The book Programming Graphical User Interfaces in R by Michael
Lawrence and John Verzani (ISBN 9781439856826) describes the major R
packages for GUI programming: RGtk2, qtbase, Tcl/Tk, and gWidgets.

-- 
Best regards,
Ivan

[*] https://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.6/TkCmd/contents.htm

[**]
https://uwaterloo.ca/statistics-and-actuarial-science/sites/ca.statistics-and-actuarial-science/files/uploads/files/rtcltk_tcl.pdf
https://uwaterloo.ca/statistics-and-actuarial-science/sites/ca.statistics-and-actuarial-science/files/uploads/files/rtcltk_geometry.pdf

[***] https://rcommander.com/