R help - Jul 2006 - tcl/tk with R

Greetings:

I would like to use tcl/tk with R, and have read "A Primer on the R-Tcl/Tk
Package" by Peter Dalgaard in Rnews, Volume 1/3, September 2001.

Are there more recent do-it-yourself instructions available?

I have been unsuccessful with the example in the tcltk2 package due to a
syntax error.

I think that I have isolated the problem to this code snippet:

for (i in 1:length(Themes)) {
tkadd(themeMenu, "command", label = Themes[i], command =
eval(parse(text paste("function() tk2theme(\"", Themes[sep =
"")))) }

And the problem seems to be here:

paste("function() tk2theme(\"", Themes[sep = ""))

Error: syntax error in "paste("function() tk2theme(\"",
Themes[sep = "")"


Further R seems not to like ' \" '

A closer look at the paste command suggests that it is incomplete and should
also contain something like

Themes[i], sep=""


I am using R Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01) on a DELL WindowsXP system with 2
gig RAM.


Many thanks for your counsel.


Charles Annis, P.E.

Charles.Annis at StatisticalEngineering.com
phone: 561-352-9699
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"Charles Annis, P.E." <Charles.Annis at
statisticalengineering.com> writes:
> Greetings:
> 
> I would like to use tcl/tk with R, and have read "A Primer on the
R-Tcl/Tk
> Package" by Peter Dalgaard in Rnews, Volume 1/3, September 2001.
> 
> Are there more recent do-it-yourself instructions available?
There's a later Rnews update, but that too could do with a revision.

@Article{pd:tcltk-update,
  author =       {Peter Dalgaard},
  title =        {Changes to the {R-Tcl/Tk} package},
  journal =      {R News},
  year =         {2002},
  volume =       2,
  number =       3,
  pages =        {25-27}
}

At this point, I think that the best introductory document is the web
pages by James Wettenhalls web pages at

http://bioinf.wehi.edu.au/~wettenhall/RTclTkExamples/

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