(R-exts.info)Linking GUIs and other front-ends to R

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8 Linking GUIs and other front-ends to R
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There are a number of ways to build front-ends to R: we take this to
mean a GUI or other application that has the ability to submit commands
to R and perhaps to receive results back (not necessarily in a text
format).  There are other routes besides those described here, for
example the package *Rserve* (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=Rserve)
(from CRAN, see also <https://www.rforge.net/Rserve/>) and connections
to Java in 'JRI' (part of the *rJava*
(https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rJava) package on CRAN) and the
Omegahat/Bioconductor package 'SJava'.

   Note that the APIs described in this chapter are only intended to be
used in an alternative front-end: they are not part of the API made
available for R packages and can be dangerous to use in a conventional
package (although packages may contain alternative front-ends).
Conversely some of the functions from the API (such as 'R_alloc') should
not be used in front-ends.

Embedding R under Unix-alikes

Embedding R under Windows