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RE: How to run created GUIs directly [ Reply ]
By: Jesper Nielsen on 2009-01-22 15:12

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply. One group of people who would really benefit from a GUI would be non-R users, who don't know how to write complex scripts. Otherwise, they could just start R, and run any R script. Most people would be able to start R and perform the "openrgg" command you mention, so that would work nicely in many cases. However, this assumes they have R and all required packages installed. Ideally, packaging the GUI with required R packages into a neat package would enable any user (Linux or Windows) to use the GUI. Such a functionality would allow R programs to be easily distributed. It wouldn't really matter if the packaging itself was hard to use or done manually, since that would be done by someone who knows R, but the execution of the package should be as simple as possible (like clicking on an executable or starting a shell script).

The framework looks very promising, and I will be looking forward to the next version.

Thanks,
Jesper

RE: How to run created GUIs directly [ Reply ]
By: ilhami visne on 2009-01-22 09:21

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> First of all, the project looks very promising for creating GUIs for wrapping R code in a nice package. Looking forward to testing future releases.

I am glad to hear this.

> Do you have any way of executing a created GUI directly from command line (or R) without first starting the RGG app, opening the created GUI file, and executing it?

Not yet. How would you like to do that? e.g. library(RGG) and then openrgg("path_to_file")

> In other words, is it possible to to package the created GUI for distribution such that others can easily use it without going into details with the GUI generator?

That is one of the main ideas of this project. The idea was (as you suggested) providing GUIs, which come whithin the R packages. However, at the moment our concentrations are lying in developing a robust framework (such as more useful GUI elements, dynamic nature etc). The RGGRunner and the JGR plug-in were the easy parts and are implemented only in two weeks.

Keep watching this space,
best wishes.

How to run created GUIs directly [ Reply ]
By: Jesper Nielsen on 2009-01-21 13:02

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First of all, the project looks very promising for creating GUIs for wrapping R code in a nice package. Looking forward to testing future releases.

Do you have any way of executing a created GUI directly from command line (or R) without first starting the RGG app, opening the created GUI file, and executing it? In other words, is it possible to to package the created GUI for distribution such that others can easily use it without going into details with the GUI generator?