Re: [Rd] Link between Qt GUI and R

2011-09-13 Thread jverzani
Barry Rowlingson lancaster.ac.uk> writes: > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:00 AM, typhoong > eurus-energy.com> wrote: > > hi everyone, thanks for all the tips. > > > > > > Barry, can you tell me why you think PyQT is by far the best way? > > I said that conditional on you knowing or wanting to

Re: [Rd] Link between Qt GUI and R

2011-09-13 Thread typhoong
hi Barry thanks for your explanation. actually i don't know much about python, also i know nothing about C++, but i am willing to learn. i had a look at the Rpy documentation, it looks quite good. I can see you can use R functions within Python. However, i don't really want to do that unless it

Re: [Rd] Link between Qt GUI and R

2011-09-12 Thread Michael Lawrence
There are two approaches that I would recommend, depending on your requirements: 1) Write a Qt GUI application and embed R inside of it. Dirk has laid out that solution. 2) Write the Qt GUI in R. Simon kindly mentioned qtgui but that is an obsolete package. You would do this using qtbase, which i

Re: [Rd] Link between Qt GUI and R

2011-09-12 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:00 AM, typhoong wrote: > hi everyone, thanks for all the tips. > > > Barry, can you tell me why you think PyQT is by far the best way? I said that conditional on you knowing or wanting to learn Python. Python interacts with Qt in much the same way as C++ interacts with

Re: [Rd] Link between Qt GUI and R

2011-09-11 Thread typhoong
hi everyone, thanks for all the tips. Barry, can you tell me why you think PyQT is by far the best way? graham -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Link-between-Qt-GUI-and-R-tp3804976p3806067.html Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [Rd] Link between Qt GUI and R

2011-09-11 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 11:30 AM, typhoong wrote: > hi, > > i want to build a Qt front-end GUI which communicates with R, and i am not > sure what i should use for the interface. There seems to be many ways: > R.dll, Rinside, Rcpp, RQt, Rtools... . what is the best way? please advice. > Another w

Re: [Rd] Link between Qt GUI and R

2011-09-11 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 11 September 2011 at 03:30, typhoong wrote: | hi, | | i want to build a Qt front-end GUI which communicates with R, and i am not | sure what i should use for the interface. There seems to be many ways: | R.dll, Rinside, Rcpp, RQt, Rtools... . what is the best way? please advice. | | basicall

Re: [Rd] Link between Qt GUI and R

2011-09-11 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Sep 11, 2011, at 6:30 AM, typhoong wrote: > hi, > > i want to build a Qt front-end GUI which communicates with R, and i am not > sure what i should use for the interface. There seems to be many ways: > R.dll, Rinside, Rcpp, RQt, Rtools... . what is the best way? please advice. > I think qt

[Rd] Link between Qt GUI and R

2011-09-11 Thread typhoong
hi, i want to build a Qt front-end GUI which communicates with R, and i am not sure what i should use for the interface. There seems to be many ways: R.dll, Rinside, Rcpp, RQt, Rtools... . what is the best way? please advice. basically what i want to do is that, the Qt GUI will allow users to ma