[R] tclVar Question

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"Jason Fisher" <stormplot at hotmail.com> writes:

> Hi All...
> 
> In an attempt to read data from a file and feed it into a tcltk entry
> box, I've run into difficulties.  The following hopefully describes my
> dilemma:
> 
> tclvalue(x.var) <- 5
> Works fine.
> 
> tclvalue("x.var") <- 5
> Does not work.  [Error: Target of assignment expands to non-language object]
> 
> tclvalue(eval(parse(text="x.var"))) <- 5
> Also, does not work.
> 
> Any ideas on how to get this to work?

Um, getting what to work? I see two interpretations: 

If you want to assign to a variable with a specified Tcl name, you
bump into the issue that the semantics of foo(x)<-whatever will try to
modify x and that won't do if x is a literal constant, so

"tclvalue<-"("x.var", 5) 
works and so does
z <- "x.var"; tclvalue(z) <- 5

or just tkcmd("set","x.var",5) and be gone with it...

On the other hand, if you have the name of a tclVar object as a
character string and you want to modify the object, then the recipe
would be something along the lines of

eval(substitute(tclvalue(foo) <- 5, list(foo=as.name("x.var"))))

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