[rkward-users] version for MAC OS?

[Simon Urbanek]

On Dec 8, 2009, at 15:20 , Agustin Lobo wrote:

> I understand. I can help, but I'm not qualified for being
> the person making the native version for Mac OS, unless I get
> detailed directions on what to do.
> Maybe the developers (Simon Urbanek) of R for Mac OS X (http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/ 
> )
> would be interested?
>

I have no idea about RKWard but from the FAQ it says that it is a KDE  
application which substantially reduces the chances of any native  
ports. We are using native Cocoa for the R GUI so they have nothing in  
common. (more comments below)

In general, feel free to ask on R-SIG-Mac about things related to Macs  
and R.


> Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
>> Hi,
>> On Friday 04 December 2009, Agustin Lobo wrote:
>>> Is there a version of RKward for Mac OS (i.e. Leopard)?
>>> Plans for it? While the default GUI for Mac is good, RKward is  
>>> better...

AFAICS RKWard has different goals than the R for Mac GUI. I would say  
that RKward is more like JGR (which is cross-platform BTW) than the  
Mac GUI. Nonetheless, wishes and suggestions for improvement of the  
Mac GUI are highly welcome.


>> RKWard uses some X11-specifics, so I suppose it cannot be compiled  
>> natively for Mac OS. I think it should work with X11 on Mac just  
>> fine, but I'm pretty ignorant about this, and I don't even know,  
>> whether that would imply installing X11-versions of KDE, Qt and R  
>> as well.
>> Creating a native version for Mac OS should not be too hard, I  
>> believe,

If RKWard is truly a KDE app then to the contrary. KDE is a very heavy  
infrastructure. There seem to be some effort of porting it to Macs but  
since it's so heavy your can't easily deploy an application. But  
again, I really don't know much about RKWard -- if it can be made to  
rely only on Qt then the story is entirely different, of course.

Cheers,
Simon


>> but obviously it would require someone with at least basic  
>> knowledge of Mac OS, and access to a Mac for testing. As you will  
>> have guessed, I don't have either. If anybody would like to give it  
>> a shot, I'd be happy to help as much as I can, but I just can't  
>> port it myself.
>> Regards
>> Thomas