Re: [R] GUIs

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From: Don MacQueen (macq@llnl.gov)
Date: Sat 29 Jun 2002 - 01:50:07 EST


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Regarding all of the various visions/dreams/suggestions for GUIs that
have been raised recently: who is going to do it?

The R core folks are obviously devoting large amounts of time and
effort to maintaining and improving R, and helping R users. I have
trouble imagining they have much time left over for the major
undertaking that the various GUI visions would entail.

R is by far the best organized, best documented, and best supported
of the half a dozen or so open-source software projects I've tried to
use. So when people start talking about improvements to the
documentation, fancy linking, and all that--yes, I understand. But
let's not lose sight of how good it already is.

-Don

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Don MacQueen
Environmental Protection Department
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA, USA
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