(GUIs, was R GUI ( was Re: [R] R Documentation(s)))

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Fri, 12 May 2000, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:

> There are of course certain operations that could be performed more easily
> with a GUI. For example, if I have a figure on the X-device, doing a
> right-click on the figure to get a pop-up menu that lets me send it to a
> postscript device or a different file (blurring the distinction) would be
> great. But not urgent.

And of course the Windows version already has such things, and replaying of
plots and ....  The problem I see is that we need to assume a toolkit for 
X (e.g. Motif) to make programming such things feasible in a finite time.

I am working on the feasibility of porting the R for Windows GUI to Motif,
and others are looking at other GUI routes.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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