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tclarray with embedded spaces in data

2 messages · Ruth M. Ripley, Peter Dalgaard

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Ruth M. Ripley
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I would like to use a tclArray:

mytkarray <- tclArray()

as the variable for a table:

table1 <- tkwidget(f1, 'table', variable= mytkarray)

but if I include character strings with embedded spaces, I get braces
appearing in the table.

I can remove them using a non-R tclarray, (the difference between the
first example of

http://www.sciviews.org/_rgui/tcltk/Tktable.html

and

http://bioinf.wehi.edu.au/~wettenhall/RTclTkExamples/tktable.html

- the result of the second of which includes the braces (although not in
the image provided!) and that of the first does not - but this seems
undesirably complicated. Am I missing something simple?

Any insights would be gratefully received,

Regards,

Ruth
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Ruth M. Ripley,                         Email:ruth at stats.ox.ac.uk
Dept. of Statistics,                    http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ruth/
University of Oxford,                   Tel:   01865 282851
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Peter Dalgaard
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Ruth M. Ripley wrote:
(Didn't anyone tell you to cook up a selfcontained example?)

This is a right-honourable pain with Tcl, and it took me quite some time 
to reconstruct what I did several years ago on this matter. The short 
answer is that you need to assign things like

as.tclObj("foo bar   baz", drop=TRUE)

into your array. The longer story involves the ambiguity in Tcl between 
lists of words separated by whitespace and strings with spaces inside. I 
suspect that the sciviews approach doesn't actually cover all cases, 
paste()'ing raw tcl commands together usually leaves you burning in 
Quoting Hell.