[rkward-users] version for MAC OS?

[Agustin Lobo]

Thank you both for your GUIs.
I understand that, from a Mac perspective, a native
GUI is better and I'm impressed by the difference between
the default GUI in Mac and in Win: the R GUI for Mac is much better.
But I'm looking for a common GUI (linux,win,mac) to make
my life easier at teaching. On this regard, I've found RKward
very useful (it's not only a GUI but includes some elementary
functions in the menu, which helps some students) and wish have it for 
all 3 OS. I'm working myself
mostly under ubuntu, 80% of students use win, 15% Mac and 5% linux.

Regards,

Agus


Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 December 2009, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>> On Dec 8, 2009, at 15:20 , Agustin Lobo wrote:
>>>> 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.
> 
> I was talking about what needs to be done in RKWard itself. There, we have 
> some platform-specific code (for X11 and Windows, so far) to detect and 
> "swallow" the R screen graphics device windows. That's basically the one area 
> that needs porting. Anyway, this is getting quite technical, so if you would 
> like to continue, here, please take the discussion to rkward-devel, instead of 
> rkward-users.
> 
> RKWard does rely on KDE, and I wouldn't claim porting KDE is "not too hard", 
> but others have already done that (http://mac.kde.org). Can't comment on the 
> quality of that port, and how hard or easy it is to install.
> 
> Regards
> Thomas