Suggestions for inputting a date via a dialog box?

2008/12/31 Tubin <sredmonson at yahoo.com>:

Hm.  This looks like a fantastic package in general... but for this
particular project I would rather not have to redo the entire program to
run
in Rpad.  And it is not immediately evident that I could use Rpad just
for
the function of getting values for a couple of date variables...  Or have
I
misunderstood?

 If this is for running on a Unix-based system you could install
xdialog and use the calendar box widget:

http://xdialog.free.fr/

 but there is no windows version as far as I can see.

 You might be able to use Perl/Tk and Tk-DateEntry on Windows:

http://search.cpan.org/~srezic/Tk-DateEntry-1.38/DateEntry.pm

 but that would require Perl, Perl/Tk, and a way of calling that from
R (probably using system()).

 You could build something simpler in pure R using library(tcltk) -
the easiest thing to do would probably be three drop-down widgets for
day, month, year. Building a full calendar widget might be tricky...

Barry

For this particular situation, a dialog box with separate entry for month,
day, and year might be the best solution.  Thanks.

The user is on a unix-based machine (a Mac with OS 10.4x) but I am expecting
him to upgrade to Leopard before long.  So I'm already struggling with TclTk
issues with him.


Barry Rowlingson wrote:

2008/12/31 Tubin <sredmonson at yahoo.com>:

Hm.  This looks like a fantastic package in general... but for this
particular project I would rather not have to redo the entire program to
run
in Rpad.  And it is not immediately evident that I could use Rpad just
for
the function of getting values for a couple of date variables...  Or have
I
misunderstood?

 If this is for running on a Unix-based system you could install
xdialog and use the calendar box widget:

http://xdialog.free.fr/

 but there is no windows version as far as I can see.

 You might be able to use Perl/Tk and Tk-DateEntry on Windows:

http://search.cpan.org/~srezic/Tk-DateEntry-1.38/DateEntry.pm

 but that would require Perl, Perl/Tk, and a way of calling that from
R (probably using system()).

 You could build something simpler in pure R using library(tcltk) -
the easiest thing to do would probably be three drop-down widgets for
day, month, year. Building a full calendar widget might be tricky...

Barry

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