Hello... Curious to know whether the TK extensions “Tktable†and “Iwidgets†will be included in future versions of R (full installation). These are key components of GUI construction and would be very useful in my current R-tcltk endeavors. I realize that I could just install a version of ActiveTcl, which includes the extensions; however, my goal is to eventually distribute my work keeping installation procedures at a minimum. I do have one question for individuals working with R and Tcl/Tk on Windows XP. Has anyone experienced corrupted GUI’s (lost widgets) after invoking a tkpack command (e.g. missing buttons). My web searches on the subject leave me wondering if it’s a Windo$e problem. Any ideas? Thank you, Jason PS: Inclusion of the Tcl/Tk within the R 1.7.0 installation has been greatly appreciated. *************************************** Jason C. Fisher UCLA Graduate Student Civil & Environmental Engineering Dept. 5731 Boelter Hall Box 951593 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1593 Email: stormplot at hotmail.com
Tcltk question for R people
3 messages · Jason Fisher, Brian Ripley, Peter Dalgaard
On Tue, 20 May 2003, Jason Fisher wrote:
Curious to know whether the TK extensions ?Tktable? and ?Iwidgets? will be included in future versions of R (full installation). These are key
On Windows? Only if that is an offer to take over the provision and testing of R_Tcl.zip.
components of GUI construction and would be very useful in my current R-tcltk endeavors. I realize that I could just install a version of ActiveTcl, which includes the extensions; however, my goal is to eventually distribute my work keeping installation procedures at a minimum.
Um, that sounds like a very lazy approach: `let me make work for the R volunteers to keep my own work to a minimum'. You seem to misunderstand the R project.
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"Jason Fisher" <stormplot at hotmail.com> writes:
Hello... Curious to know whether the TK extensions ?Tktable? and ?Iwidgets? will be included in future versions of R (full installation). These are key components of GUI construction and would be very useful in my current R-tcltk endeavors. I realize that I could just install a version of ActiveTcl, which includes the extensions; however, my goal is to eventually distribute my work keeping installation procedures at a minimum. I do have one question for individuals working with R and Tcl/Tk on Windows XP. Has anyone experienced corrupted GUI?s (lost widgets) after invoking a tkpack command (e.g. missing buttons). My web searches on the subject leave me wondering if it?s a Windo$e problem. Any ideas? Thank you, Jason PS: Inclusion of the Tcl/Tk within the R 1.7.0 installation has been greatly appreciated.
This stuff is, well, "under consideration". I've been wanting to have the Tktable package in there too (for one thing, it could give us an alternative data editor in a page or two of code). However, I'm not sure how far we want to follow the route of adding external libraries to the R sources, so it might be better to add them in the form of R packages. Volunteers into figuring out how to do this in the Windows DLL world are welcome...
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