[R-gui] Re: [R] Feedback about SciViews?

Tobias Verbeke tobias_verbeke at skynet.be
Thu May 1 09:22:37 CEST 2003


 
> > last year or two I've seen some very impressive platform
> > independent GUI's built with java.
> 
> Not for R.  One could argue for Python in the same light, as well. 

I fully agree. Platform-independence is one thing, 
freedom another. R is free-as-in-freedom-software, 
so it would really be a pity not to use a powerful
free-as-in-freedom-language to build R-GUI(s), be it
Python or another one.

This being said, any project to bring R
on any computer in the world is to be praised,
but please let R as such not be contaminated with
a language that doesn't come out of the mouth
of a healthy gnu...

acolyte of service,

Tobias



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