[R] Me again, about the horrible documentation of tcltk

[Peter Dalgaard]

Alberto Monteiro wrote:
> How on Earth can I know what are the arguments of any of the functions of 
> the tcl/tk package? I tried hard to find, using all search engines 
> available, looking deep into keywords of R, python's tkinter and tcl/tk, but 
> nowhere I found anything remotely similar to a help.
>
> For example, what are the possible arguments to tkgetOpenFile?
>
> I know that this works:
>
> library(tcltk)
> filename <- tclvalue(tkgetOpenFile(
>   filetypes="{{Qorn Files} {.jpg}} {{All files} {*}}"))
> if (filename != "") cat("Selected file:", filename, "\n")
>
> but, besides filetypes, what are the other arguments to
> tkgetOpenFile? I would like to force the files to be sorted by
> time, with most recent files coming first (and no, the purpose is
> not to use for qorn files).
>
>   
man n tk_getOpenFile

or if you are not on Unix/Linux, find it online with Google
> Alberto Monteiro
>
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