RGG: a general GUI Framework for R scripts. Export

@article{citeulike:4118635, abstract = {BACKGROUND: R is the leading open source statistics software with a vast number of biostatistical and bioinformatical analysis packages. To exploit the advantages of R, extensive scripting/programming skills are required. RESULTS: We have developed a software tool called R GUI Generator (RGG) which enables the easy generation of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for the programming language R by adding a few Extensible Markup Language (XML) - tags. RGG consists of an XML-based GUI definition language and a Java-based GUI engine. GUIs are generated in runtime from defined GUI tags that are embedded into the R script. User-GUI input is returned to the R code and replaces the XML-tags. RGG files can be developed using any text editor. The current version of RGG is available as a stand-alone software (RGGRunner) and as a plug-in for JGR. CONCLUSION: RGG is a general GUI framework for R that has the potential to introduce R statistics (R packages, built-in functions and scripts) to users with limited programming skills and helps to bridge the gap between R developers and GUI-dependent users. RGG aims to abstract the GUI development from individual GUI toolkits by using an XML-based GUI definition language. Thus RGG can be easily integrated in any software. The RGG project further includes the development of a web-based repository for RGG-GUIs. RGG is an open source project licensed under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and can be downloaded freely at (http://rgg.r-forge.r-project.org).}, author = {Visne, Ilhami and Dilaveroglu, Erkan and Vierlinger, Klemens and Lauss, Martin and Yildiz, Ahmet and Weinhaeusel, Andreas and Noehammer, Christa and Leisch, Friedrich and Kriegner, Albert}, citeulike-article-id = {4118635}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-10-74}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19254356}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19254356}, doi = {10.1186/1471-2105-10-74}, issn = {1471-2105}, journal = {BMC bioinformatics}, keywords = {r}, number = {1}, pages = {74+}, posted-at = {2009-03-02 13:22:00}, priority = {2}, title = {RGG: a general GUI Framework for R scripts.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-10-74}, volume = {10}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4118635 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4118635 N2 - BACKGROUND: R is the leading open source statistics software with a vast number of biostatistical and bioinformatical analysis packages. To exploit the advantages of R, extensive scripting/programming skills are required. RESULTS: We have developed a software tool called R GUI Generator (RGG) which enables the easy generation of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for the programming language R by adding a few Extensible Markup Language (XML) - tags. RGG consists of an XML-based GUI definition language and a Java-based GUI engine. GUIs are generated in runtime from defined GUI tags that are embedded into the R script. User-GUI input is returned to the R code and replaces the XML-tags. RGG files can be developed using any text editor. The current version of RGG is available as a stand-alone software (RGGRunner) and as a plug-in for JGR. CONCLUSION: RGG is a general GUI framework for R that has the potential to introduce R statistics (R packages, built-in functions and scripts) to users with limited programming skills and helps to bridge the gap between R developers and GUI-dependent users. RGG aims to abstract the GUI development from individual GUI toolkits by using an XML-based GUI definition language. Thus RGG can be easily integrated in any software. The RGG project further includes the development of a web-based repository for RGG-GUIs. RGG is an open source project licensed under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and can be downloaded freely at (http://rgg.r-forge.r-project.org). IS - 1 JF - BMC bioinformatics SN - 1471-2105 TI - RGG: a general GUI Framework for R scripts. VL - 10 SP - 74 KW - r AU - Visne, Ilhami AU - Dilaveroglu, Erkan AU - Vierlinger, Klemens AU - Lauss, Martin AU - Yildiz, Ahmet AU - Weinhaeusel, Andreas AU - Noehammer, Christa AU - Leisch, Friedrich AU - Kriegner, Albert PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-10-74 ER -