[R-gui] Good Tcl/tk widget reference?

[Greg Snow]

I don't know of a single good reference, installed with R is the help files for tcltk, this has lots of detail including all the options and that information, but it is in the tcl syntax, not R and translating to R can be tricky in some cases.

There were a couple of tutorials examples in the R newsletter (now the R journal) a few years back that gave a good starting place, but not the detail on all widgets etc.

I personally often refer to the perlTk book, but that is only helpful for those of us with experience in Perl and I still need to translate to R syntax.

So the only real option is to combine various things, the tcl documentation, examples of R syntax (the newsletter and existing code), and a bit of trial and error to figure out what works.

The one upside is that you can ask questions without fear of getting a RTFM response.

I think Tk with R is still a bit too much of a niche area that no one has written the document yet that covers everything that you want.

Hope this helps a little, sorry it is not what you had hoped for.

-- 
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111


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> Hello again.
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> First, thanks for all for the great help on sliders, etc.
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> Next, what is a good reference for Tcl/tk that would include the
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> Thanks again very much!!
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> Sincerely,
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> Erin
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> Erin M. Hodgess, Ph.D.
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> Associate Professor
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> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
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