June 8, 2012                                                                by Chapman and Hall/CRC

                                                            Features                                

• Provides a how-to guide for developing GUIs within R
• Presents the fundamentals for users with limited knowledge of programming within R and other languages
• Enables R programmers and users to design their own GUIs for specific functions or as learning tools
• Offers a package in CRAN that contains all of the code and additional examples
  

                                                                                        Summary                                Programming Graphical User Interfaces with R introduces each of the major R packages for GUI programming: RGtk2, qtbase, Tcl/Tk, and gWidgets. With examples woven through the text as well as stand-alone demonstrations of simple yet reasonably complete applications, the book features topics especially relevant to statisticians who aim to provide a practical interface to functionality implemented in R. The book offers:

• A how-to guide for developing GUIs within R
• The fundamentals for users with limited knowledge of programming within R and other languages
• GUI design for specific functions or as learning tools
  

The accompanying package, ProgGUIinR, includes the complete code for all examples as well as functions for browsing the examples from the respective chapters. Accessible to seasoned, novice, and occasional R users, this book shows that for many purposes, adding a graphical interface to one’s work is not terribly sophisticated or time consuming.