How should I do rapid GUI development for R and Octave methods (possibly with Python)?

Question

We are a medium-sized academic research lab whose main outputs are new statistical methods for analyzing large datasets. We generally develop in R and MATLAB/Octave.

We

Answer 1

I've been looking for something similar - simple rapid GUI in R. It seems there's a new alternative from RStudio guys.

Shiny should be sufficient for small web interfaces without much coding. Seems like a viable option if you need a simple input/output style of UI.