Hi,
You might like tk_choose.files from package tcltk. This comes with R but
your system needs to be capable enough:
> capabilities( )["tcktk"]
> require( tcltk )
> tk_choose.files
Romain
Derek Eder wrote:> I am used to using the [R] function choose.files() for interactive file
selection in MS-Windows.
>
> What is the comparable function in Linux? I expected the function
file.choose() to display similar behavior, i.e., a graphical interface diplaying
a file listing, but all I seem to get is a "text input prompt". This
does not seem correct.
>
> > file.choose()
> Enter file name:
>
> I have seen gfile() function in the gWidgets library - but isn't there
anything native?
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> Derek Eder
>
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> Linux: Ubuntu 9.04, Gnome, [R] running in terminal or ESS GTK_Emacs
(doesn't make any difference to the above).
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>> version _
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> platform i486-pc-linux-gnu
> arch i486
> os linux-gnu
> system i486, linux-gnu
> status
> major 2
> minor 8.1
> year 2008
> month 12
> day 22
> svn rev 47281
> language R
> version.string R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
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>
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