[R] tcltk tkwidget(..."table")

[Dalthorp, Daniel]

>  Once you're up to speed on those issues...

Any suggestions for getting up to speed on those issues?



On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:46 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:

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> > On 21 Jan 2016, at 00:25 , Dalthorp, Daniel <ddalthorp at usgs.gov> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, Peter.
> >
> > I'm sure that's right, but it requires knowing: (1) that there's
> something called the "width subcommand", and (2) how to format the call to
> that command/subcommand.
> >
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> Yes, there's a fair amount of that going on with the tcltk interface. You
> need to both grasp the rules for passing arguments to the underlying Tcl
> command, and know how to find and read the Tcl/Tk documentation. Once
> you're up to speed on those issues it's not all that hard to find stuff in
> (for the present case), say,
> http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tktable/doc/tkTable.html
>
> The situation may be unfortunate, but the alternative is for "someone" to
> sit down an convert all relevant Tcl/Tk documentation to R help files.
>
> -pd
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> > I was able to do it eventually but only after a few hours of effort
> searching the web for help.
> >
> > E.g. with a table (called table1) with 3 columns and want to set widths
> to 30, 5, and 5:
> >
> > colwidths<-c(30, 5, 5)
> >
> > for(i in 1:3) {
> >   tcl(table1, "width", i - 1, colwidths[i])
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:07 PM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > On 19 Jan 2016, at 20:48 , Dalthorp, Daniel <ddalthorp at usgs.gov>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Does anyone know a simple way to create a tcltk table with columns of
> > > varying widths?
> >
> > Create a table, then set the width of the columns with the width
> subcommand?
> >
> > -pd
> >
> >
> > pathName width ?col? ?value col value ...? If no col is specified,
> returns a list describing all cols for which a width has been set. If col
> is specified with no value, it prints out the width of that col in
> characters (positive number) or pixels (negative number). If one or more
> col-value pairs are specified, then it sets each col to be that width in
> characters (positive number) or pixels (negative number). If value is
> default, then the col uses the default width, specified by -colwidth.
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > -Dan
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dan Dalthorp, PhD
> > > USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
> > > Forest Sciences Lab, Rm 189
> > > 3200 SW Jefferson Way
> > > Corvallis, OR 97331
> > > ph: 541-750-0953
> > > ddalthorp at usgs.gov
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> > Dan Dalthorp, PhD
> > USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
> > Forest Sciences Lab, Rm 189
> > 3200 SW Jefferson Way
> > Corvallis, OR 97331
> > ph: 541-750-0953
> > ddalthorp at usgs.gov
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> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
> Phone: (+45)38153501
> Office: A 4.23
> Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com
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-- 
Dan Dalthorp, PhD
USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
Forest Sciences Lab, Rm 189
3200 SW Jefferson Way
Corvallis, OR 97331
ph: 541-750-0953
ddalthorp at usgs.gov

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