[R-SIG-Finance] Building a GUI with R

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Its possible to write a GUI in R.  See
http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/
although that list is a bit old so RGtk2 and the various
gWidgets packages are missing from that list.
The core of R contains ?menu, ?select.list, ?View and ?winMenus
and on Windows the tcltk package is included in the R download.

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:26 AM, Alex Park <alex.park1 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am a private investor and have been wondering about the feasibility of
> building my own personal piece of software to help with my investing. In
> particular, I am thinking of a desktop application that has the following
> features:
>
> - Ability to open up a number of charts and be able to select markets /
> stocks from a pre-populated list
>
> - Ability to have a trading log so I can book my own trades and see my
> annualised returns and how this compares to various benchmarks
>
> - Ability to link to a variety of data sources (e.g. FRED) and financial
> news sources etc.
>
> - Statistical framework so I can easily compare correlations within markets,
> perform regressions etc.
>
> As a bit of background, I used to do some of this in Excel in a crude way
> using VBA. Then I discovered R and started investigating .NET (VB, C#, C++).
> I think R is terrific for analysis and the functions it offers are great
> e.g. getting Yahoo quotes, accessing FRED database etc.
>
> What I'd like to do is build my own software in .NET (e.g. build trading log
> GUI, place my daily market data within database etc.) but also have access
> to R from within the software so that I can use it to build sophisticated
> charts, do stats analysis, connect to different data sources e.g. Yahoo etc.
>
> My question is: does this seem like a step to far for an amateur programmer
> like me and / or does anybody have an experience in doing similar and could
> advise on (a) whether .NET is best way to go, and (b) potential pitfalls.
>
> Any comments gladly received.
>
> Regards
>
> Alex
>
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