Dear Irina, though you asked explicitly for writing a RCommander-plugin package; I just wanted to add that the former approach of tailor-making menues in the Commander still works. That is, just copy your R file with the tcl/tk functions into the /etc directory of the RCommander and include your menu structure into the file "Rcmdr-menus.txt"
Best, Bernhard > >Dear Irina, > > >On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Irina Ursachi ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dear all, >> >> I am trying to write a plugin for the RCommander and having troubles >> understanding how to actually do that. I have read Mr. Fox's tutorial >> about writing Rcmdr plugins and though.... it seems to me that some >> steps are missing. I would like to know, whether there are some >> Commands which generate a plugin package out of a given >library. Or do >> we just have to attach the .First.lib function and the >menus.txt data to >> the library? Out of the RcmdrPlugin.TeachingDemos example I >could see, >> that one of the differences between the plugin and the >library, is the >> fact that the plugin package also contains the "etc" >subdirectory... so >> I suppose my plugin package should contain one too, right? >> The way I was trying to build my plugin package (and it didn't work ) >> was: I installed Rcmdr, the latest version locally, in a folder named >> "Rlib". There is where I also installed my library and >trying to use the >> "require" command to load it into R Commander. What I don't >understand, >> is how to build the RcmdrPlugin.*? >> I would really appreciate, if somebody could help me with >that, or maybe >> just recommend me a tutorial. >> >> Best regards, >> Irina Ursachi. >> > >In general, you can read the R-manuals (in particular, the "Writing R >Extensions" one) to make sure that you have all of absolutely >necessary components (a DESCRIPTION, an /R directory, all of the >required documentation, etc.) > >That being said, the basic format of an RcmdrPlugin is: > >The /R directory: this is where you put all of the Tcl/Tk functions >for your menus that you want to add. In addition, any extra functions >that you wrote that are new should go in here. You will need in here >the .First.lib function that John mentioned in his article, in the >format that he suggested. > >The /man directory: this has all of the .Rd help files. One of >these files will likely be titled something like >"RcmdrPlugin.foo-internal.Rd". This is where you will put aliases to >many of the functions that are 'internal' in the sense that they are >not to be called by the user. > >The /inst directory: in here you will need to put a file "menus.txt". > John Fox's article gives you lots of details about how to set it up >correctly. You only need to include lines for the menus that you are >specifically adding. And now with Rcmdr_1.4-0, you can include lines >for menus that you prefer _not_ to appear (this really helps with >making the menus less cluttered when multiple plugins are loaded). > >The /data directory: optional. Do you want to include data >with your plugin? > >Your DESCRIPTION file should be set up as the article recommends, with >the DEPENDS argument showing at least Rcmdr 1.3.0 (and you would be >advised to go with Rcmdr 1.4.0). See the article about the details of >DESCRIPTION. > >There are a lot more things that you can do; please see the manuals >for details. But the above has the bare essentials for a RcmdrPlugin >(I don't believe that I am forgetting anything.) > >Once you have those essential parts, then the RcmdrPlugin is built and >installed in exactly the same way as any other R package (again, see >the manuals.... I see an "R CMD build" in your future... :-). There >are many, many messages on the R-help archive to help you for your >operating system, and many people have written online tutorials. > >Perhaps the best advice is to download the source code >RcmdrPlugin.xxxxx.tar.gz from CRAN (e.g. RcmdrPlugin.IPSUR), extract >the archive, and take a look at how other people have done it. > >I hope that this helps, and good luck! :-) > >Jay > > > > >*************************************************** >G. Jay Kerns, Ph.D. >Associate Professor >Department of Mathematics & Statistics >Youngstown State University >Youngstown, OH 44555-0002 USA >Office: 1035 Cushwa Hall >Phone: (330) 941-3310 Office (voice mail) >-3302 Department >-3170 FAX >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.cc.ysu.edu/~gjkerns/ > >______________________________________________ >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. > ***************************************************************** Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this ...{{dropped:10}} ______________________________________________ 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.
