Doran, Harold wrote: > I'm curious if there are users of RPy on this list. I've recently > created a gui front end using Tkinter for some python scripts I've > written for some of our internal operations and I am quite pleased with > how this program works.
> Currently, I can use py2exe to create a executable that allows for this > gui to appear and for all python scripts to run even if the user doesn't > have python on their machine. So (maybe) in theory if I can link Rpy to > my gui to run R, I can then use py2exe to compile it and that would > allow the user to run the functions even if R isn't on the machine. You're confounding having something on a machine with having something installed on a machine. Py2exe works by bundling all of python with the exe file, so in a sense the target machine does have python on it, just not installed in C:\Python in the usual way. If you give someone four different py2exe programs, they end up having four lots of python. For Py2exe to work with R so that people wouldn't have to install R, it would mean that Py2exe would have to bundle up all of R in the exe file. So that's the R binary, the .dll, every library package needed and so on. In a word, 'ick!'. > I realize this is a broad question and has no minimal commented code. > But, if anyone has some experience using Rpy, Tkinter and R I can come > up with a small example to see if we could work out a possible way to > use Tkinter to run R Rpy is the way to go, but you will have to get your users to install R, python and Rpy. It's only a few clicks and they only have to do it once. Personally I've used PyQt to create python programs with Qt GUIs that call R and it all works very nicely. Barry ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
