[rkward-devel] system calls with JS?

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

On Thursday 11 March 2010, meik michalke wrote:
> am Donnerstag 11 März 2010 (10:50) schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier:
> > What I mean is, why not just generate the following R code 
> > unconditionally (just a sketch):
> 
> sure, this would have the same result in the end, and i guess i'll have to
>  do it that way now.
> 
> what i found very comfortable when handling it via PHP was that you could
> immediately see in the code window whether R would produce the desired
>  output at all. that's no big deal, but saves you from having to actually
>  run all code just to learn if it finds the tools.

I admit, this point does not really convince me. At least not enough to 
warrant the added complexity in the JS backend.

> but actually, i'd rather have it even a step earlier, like an extended
>  logic check (if the plugin is called, check the interesting system stuff,
>  and enable/disable the according plugin elements).

Ok, here, I can see the use case. I guess it should be possible and reasonable 
to provide for such checks inside the GUI logic, once we have scripting 
capatiblities, there (not scheduled, yet, but I won't start on this before 
0.5.3).

Regards
Thomas
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