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

[Alberto Monteiro]

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From: Philippe Grosjean <phgrosjean at sciviews.org>
To: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch, Mike Meredith <mmeredith at wcs.org>
Sent: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:57:17 +0200
Subject: Re: [R] Me again, about the horrible documentation of tcltk

> 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 
> 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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> >>> * Any use of tradenames does not constitute a NOAA endorsement.
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