Re: Testing wanted for Gnome R

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Lyndon Drake wrote:

> The GNOME interface is intended to look nicer and make R easier to use,
> especially for beginners.

Wow, maybe I should learn how this works instead of ever bothering with
gnuplot again. Pretty nice.

> Compiling R is similar to most GNU projects: run configure, followed
> by make and make install.  To enable the GNOME interface, you will
> need to supply the --with-gnome argument to configure.  Once R has
> been built, you will want to run R -g to get the GNOME interface.
>
> Feel free to contribute patches, bug reports, or other comments.

1. If built --with-gnome, the Gnome interface should be the default, since
it's so much nicer than the other interface. :-)

2. I think you might want to look into using a ZvtTerm widget instead of
a GtkText for the console - you would get dingus support, a lot nicer
display, and automatic handling of all the low-level details that you are
probably having to do by hand now.

-- Elliot
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.