[R] Suggestions for inputting a date via a dialog box?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Try this:

library(fgui)
gui(function(year, month, day) as.Date(paste(year, month, day, sep = "-")))


On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Tubin <sredmonson at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> For this particular situation, a dialog box with separate entry for month,
> day, and year might be the best solution.  Thanks.
>
> The user is on a unix-based machine (a Mac with OS 10.4x) but I am expecting
> him to upgrade to Leopard before long.  So I'm already struggling with TclTk
> issues with him.
>
>
> Barry Rowlingson wrote:
>>
>> 2008/12/31 Tubin <sredmonson at yahoo.com>:
>>>
>>> Hm.  This looks like a fantastic package in general... but for this
>>> particular project I would rather not have to redo the entire program to
>>> run
>>> in Rpad.  And it is not immediately evident that I could use Rpad just
>>> for
>>> the function of getting values for a couple of date variables...  Or have
>>> I
>>> misunderstood?
>>
>>  If this is for running on a Unix-based system you could install
>> xdialog and use the calendar box widget:
>>
>> http://xdialog.free.fr/
>>
>>  but there is no windows version as far as I can see.
>>
>>  You might be able to use Perl/Tk and Tk-DateEntry on Windows:
>>
>> http://search.cpan.org/~srezic/Tk-DateEntry-1.38/DateEntry.pm
>>
>>  but that would require Perl, Perl/Tk, and a way of calling that from
>> R (probably using system()).
>>
>>  You could build something simpler in pure R using library(tcltk) -
>> the easiest thing to do would probably be three drop-down widgets for
>> day, month, year. Building a full calendar widget might be tricky...
>>
>> Barry
>>
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