how to get the GUI directory chooser on Windows?
Dear Andy,
At 02:29 PM 2/11/2004 -0500, Liaw, Andy wrote:
Thanks to Uwe and Duncan Murdoch (who replied off-list). The bottom line is as Uwe said: no existing R level functionality. I guess it might be possible to do something similar with Tcl/Tk, but I do not know Tcl/tk...
With the tcltk package loaded, it's as simple as tclvalue(tkchooseDirectory()), which returns the directory name as a character string. I hope that this helps, John
Best, Andy
From: Uwe Ligges Liaw, Andy wrote:
Dear R-help, Can anyone tell me if it's possible to call up the
"directory chooser" (the
one you get when you click on "File" -> "Change Dir...") in
Rgui from the R
command line? Seems like file.choose() can't be used to
choose a directory. Looks like there is no R function to do so. The C level code is in ./src/gnuwin32/rui.c and ./src/gnuwin32/graphapp/dialogs.c and friends. Uwe Ligges
This is in R-1.8.1 on WinXPPro. Any help much appreciated! Andy
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