RGtk2: A Graphical User Interface Toolkit for R
Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are growing in popularity as a complement or alternative to the traditional command line interfaces to R. RGtk2 is an R package for creating GUIs in R. The package provides programmatic access to GTK+ 2.0, an open-source GUI toolkit written in C. To construct a GUI,...
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| description | Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are growing in popularity as a complement or alternative to the traditional command line interfaces to R. RGtk2 is an R package for creating GUIs in R. The package provides programmatic access to GTK+ 2.0, an open-source GUI toolkit written in C. To construct a GUI, the R programmer calls RGtk2 functions that map to functions in the underlying GTK+ library. This paper introduces the basic concepts underlying GTK+ and explains how to use RGtk2 to construct GUIs from R. The tutorial is based on simple and pratical programming examples. We also provide more complex examples illustrating the advanced features of the package. The design of the RGtk2 API and the low-level interface from R to GTK+ are discussed at length. We compare RGtk2 to alternative GUI toolkits for R. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-25aba257db294a5bbab511a088d027652022-12-22T00:03:38ZengFoundation for Open Access StatisticsJournal of Statistical Software1548-76602011-01-013708RGtk2: A Graphical User Interface Toolkit for RDuncan Temple LangMichael LawrenceGraphical user interfaces (GUIs) are growing in popularity as a complement or alternative to the traditional command line interfaces to R. RGtk2 is an R package for creating GUIs in R. The package provides programmatic access to GTK+ 2.0, an open-source GUI toolkit written in C. To construct a GUI, the R programmer calls RGtk2 functions that map to functions in the underlying GTK+ library. This paper introduces the basic concepts underlying GTK+ and explains how to use RGtk2 to construct GUIs from R. The tutorial is based on simple and pratical programming examples. We also provide more complex examples illustrating the advanced features of the package. The design of the RGtk2 API and the low-level interface from R to GTK+ are discussed at length. We compare RGtk2 to alternative GUI toolkits for R.http://www.jstatsoft.org/v37/i08/papergraphical user interfaceGUIRGTK+ |
| spellingShingle | Duncan Temple Lang Michael Lawrence RGtk2: A Graphical User Interface Toolkit for R Journal of Statistical Software graphical user interface GUI R GTK+ |
| title | RGtk2: A Graphical User Interface Toolkit for R |
| title_full | RGtk2: A Graphical User Interface Toolkit for R |
| title_fullStr | RGtk2: A Graphical User Interface Toolkit for R |
| title_full_unstemmed | RGtk2: A Graphical User Interface Toolkit for R |
| title_short | RGtk2: A Graphical User Interface Toolkit for R |
| title_sort | rgtk2 a graphical user interface toolkit for r |
| topic | graphical user interface GUI R GTK+ |
| url | http://www.jstatsoft.org/v37/i08/paper |
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