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

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 06/07/2007 6:57 AM, Philippe Grosjean wrote:
> For those who are interested, I just cook a little tcltkHelp() function 
> to ease access to the Tcl/Tk documentation under Windows. This is on the 
> Wiki discussion of the TkCommands help page at: 
> http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=rdoc:tcltk:tkcommands

Thanks, Philippe.  That's a useful function.

Duncan Murdoch

> Best,
> 
> Philippe Grosjean
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> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> On 06/07/2007 3:51 AM, Mike Meredith wrote:
>>> I think it would help if the tcl/tk manuals were added to the RGui Help
>>> menu. Why google when they are on your hard drive already?
>> I'd say they are too specialized for that.  There are dozens of topics 
>> that are as important as this, but a GUI menu with more than a few 
>> entries is just unwieldy.
>>
>> We do have a text reference to the help files in the ?tcltk topic.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>> Cheers,  Mike
>>>
>>>
>>> Mike Prager wrote:
>>>> "Alberto Monteiro" <albmont at centroin.com.br> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> How on Earth can I know what are the arguments of any of the functions of 
>>>>> the tcl/tk package? [...]
>>>> My impression is that you as supposed to look in tck/tk manuals.
>>>> For example, Googling on
>>>>
>>>> tk tck getopenfile
>>>>
>>>> pointed to this Web page:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TkCmd/getOpenFile.htm
>>>>
>>>> Hope that helps.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Mike Prager, NOAA, Beaufort, NC
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