Bug 380539

-- This ticket was imported from http://sourceforge.net/p/rkward/feature-requests/5 on 2017-05-31 14:48:55 +0100 --
R CONSOLE  

Question: with the new command editor, what sould be  
the R Console windos? Many people/scientist use R in  
console and find usefull coding inside a terminal window.  
S-Plus erroneous was wrong about it in the past and we  
need to avoid this way: a user-friendly interface is a  
"flexible" interface that could be easy but not stupid, that  
suggest a simple way to do things but offer "other" ways  
for geeks.  

IMHO, the R Console sould be a classical terminal  
window with R command line. A user will code inside this  
terminal with our loaded workspace and without any  
"Run" or "Reset" buttons. This capability port us to some  
problems: when a user run commands, we need a  
sub-layer that control what happen \(eg. removing an  
object in the workspace with "rm\(my.data\)" sould update  
the "Workspace" window \(ex-Objects Browser\)  
and close the data.frame window in Main\). This kind of  
control is a must.  

An expert-user without classical R console could open  
rkward and an external xterm+R console to work on the  
same workspace. RKWard need to lock activities  
on the workspace area and address the use of rkward::R  
console instead.  

Schema:  
rkward -> load workspace and lock activities on it  
rkward-RConsole -> any code will be passed to a control  
layer.  

\(originally submitted by danielemedri\) -- Labels: Console --