[R] Tcl/Tk window lingering too long

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, David Firth wrote:

> I want to set up a simple Tk dialog interface to a function in R,
> such that when the "OK" button is pressed, the dialog window is
> destroyed and then R does its work on the data/parameters/whatever
> that were entered in the dialog.  The function "test" below is a
> simple prototype.
>
> My problem: upon running test() and hitting "OK", R does its work
> (ie, computes rnorm(400000) in the silly example below), and only
> *after* that does the dialog window disappear.  Is there some way to
> make sure that the window disappears immediately after hitting "OK"?
>
> I am using R and Tcl/Tk under Darwin/X11.  Exact version information
> below.  I have made similar dialogs before with a Windows version and
> my recollection is that I didn't have this problem -- is it perhaps a
> system-dependent thing?

Right: it disappears immediately on Windows.  As far as I can tell on my
fast Linux box (even across the net to my cable modem), there it has the
effect you mention.

BTW, to all those who have been saying that 1.4.1 is not easily available
on MacOS X/darwin, note the details below.

> platform powerpc-apple-darwin5.3
> arch     powerpc
> os       darwin5.3
> system   powerpc, darwin5.3
> status
> major    1
> minor    4.1
> year     2002
> month    01
> day      30
> language R


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