[R] RGTK2 and glade on Windows - GUI newbie

[Felix Andrews]

I just discovered a good introduction to the RGtk2 package:
RShowDoc("overview2", package="RGtk2")

I have been using RGtk2 for over a year without knowing about that,
and struggling with the API documentation, so can I suggest that it be
mentioned somewhere prominent? i.e. put it on the project web-page,
and make it a vignette so that it appears on the CRAN package page.

Cheers,
Felix


2008/2/11 Felix Andrews <felix at nfrac.org>:
> Yes, a GUI based on GTK+ (with or without Glade) will work on Windows XP.
>
>  If what you want to do is relatively straightforward (say, without any
>  fancy formatting, or advanced event handling) then you should consider
>  gWidgets. Look at the vignette in the gWidgets package.
>
>  If you do decide to go with RGtk2 directly rather than gWidgets, look
>  at demo(package="RGtk2"). If you are using Glade, you might want to
>  look at the source code for Rattle, which is a GUI built with Glade:
>  see http://rattle.googlecode.com/
>  and http://datamining.togaware.com/survivor/Installation_Details.html
>  (Another example is hydrosanity: http://hydrosanity.googlecode.com/)
>
>  By the way, there is a special mailing list for GUI issues:
>  https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-gui
>
>  Felix
>
>
>
>  On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Anja Kraft
>  <anja.kraft at mail.uni-oldenburg.de> wrote:
>  > Hallo,
>  >
>  >  I'd like to write a GUI (first choice with GTK+).
>  >  I've surfed through the R- an Omegahat-Pages, because I'd like to use
>  >  RGTK2, GTK 2.10.11 in combination with glade on Windows XP (perhaps later
>  >  Unix, Mac).
>  >  I've found a lot of different information. Because of the information I'm
>  >  not sure, if this combination is running on Windows XP and I'm unsure how
>  >  it works.
>  >
>  >  Is there anyone, who has experience with this combination (if it works)
>  >  and could tell me, where I could find something like a tutorial, how this
>  >  combination is used together and how it works?
>  >
>  >  Thank you very much,
>  >
>  >  Anja Kraft
>  >
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Felix Andrews / $B0BJ!N)(B
PhD candidate
Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management Centre
The Fenner School of Environment and Society
The Australian National University (Building 48A), ACT 0200
Beijing Bag, Locked Bag 40, Kingston ACT 2604
http://www.neurofractal.org/felix/
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