G'day Hadley,
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:54:48 -0600
"hadley wickham" <h.wick...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Prof Brian Ripley
> <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, hadley wickham wrote:
[...]
> >> Is it possible to programmatically minimise the main window of the
> >> windows R gui? I'm designing a small gui with gwidgets & RGtk2
> >> for an non-statistician to use, and it would be nice if I could
> >> easily hide all the R stuff that they don't need.
> >
> > Not from R itself, but you can by Windows script programming (which
> > you can launch by 'system'. It would also be esay to add a small
> > bit of C code to do so.
[...]
Not sure if this is what you are after, but I believe we had once a
similar problem. Client wanted to have a GUI that would read in a file
with the list of people who had bought Raffle tickets, select the
winners, and write the winners to a file. They were just interested in
seeing the GUI stuff and not the underlying R main window &c.
We ended up giving them an USB stick with R on it and the package we
wrote for them together with other packages they needed. I attach the
instructions that I wrote up for our consultant (sitting in Perth) on
how I could create such an USB stick (sitting in Singapore). UWA has
an authenticating proxy while NUS does not, hence the references to
"--internet2" on that write up.
As it turned out, if you do not use the standard way of installing R
but select SDI during the installation (if memory serves correctly,
this choice can also be made after R is installed, but then doing this
change is a bit more involved), then you can start R "minimized". That
is the R main window does not appear. You just have to make sure that
your code is executed when you start R (via .onAttach, .First &c) and
brings up the GUI that the user is supposed to see.
HTH.
Cheers,
Berwin
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1) Install R on USB stick:
Start R installer (named something like (R-2.x.y-win32.exe).
During installation:
i) Select drive corresponding to USB stick for location to which R
is to be installed (i.e. if USB stick is drive DRV, then install R
to location DRV:\R-2.x.y).
ii) Customize startup:
a) select SDI, everything else per default
b) may be necessary to select internet2 as internet connection
if sitting behind a proxy (but it is also possible to do so
later, i.e o.k. to use the default)
iii) Don't create a "Start Menu folder"
iv) Don't create desktop icon or registry entries
2) Create a short cut to Rgui.exe (located in
DRV:\R-2.x.y\bin\Rgui.exe) and move it to the top folder of the
USB stick.
Optionally, rename short cut (e.g. Raffle Draw)
3) Start R using the short cut.
4) Select "Install package(s) from local zip files" from Packages menu:
select RaffleDraw_1.y.zip (currently y=1, but may change) for installation.
5) Select "Install package(s)..." from Packages menu:
select appropriate CRAN mirror, then select gWidgets and
gWidgetsrJava to be installed.
quit R
If this step does not work, then you are probably sitting behind a
proxy. In that case, go to the short cut that points to Rgui.exe,
right click on the short cut and select properties from pop-up
window; add "--internet2" to the target (i.e. the target should
read something like "DRV:\R-2.x.y\bin\Rgui.exe --internet2").
Click "Apply" and then "Ok" and try again.
6) Right-click on short cut and select properties from pop-up window;
change entry for "Run:" from "Normal window" to "minimized". Click
"Apply" and then "Ok". (Remove the "--internet2" option if it had
been added)
7) Goto to the folder DRV:\R-2.x.y\etc and edit the Rprofile.site file
located in that folder:
add "library(RaffleDraw)" as last line (without the quotation marks)
save file and quit
8) go to top folder of USB stick and double click on the short cut.
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