R help - Sep 2010 - choose.dir() gone?

Hi,

I fail to find "choose.dir()" in my current R install (see below)?
Didn't
that exist at some point? How to achieve "file.choose()" equivalent 
functionality for directories?

Thanks for any hints, Joh
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) 
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu 

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8          LC_NUMERIC=C                 
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8           LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8       
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8       LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8      
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8          LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8          
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8        LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8     
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8    LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] rkward_0.5.3

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.11.1

OK. Just checked and "choose.file"/"choose.dir" exists in
the windows
version - apparently not in the linux one ... does anybody have a nice 
platform-agnostic solution for this?

Thanks, Joh

Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I fail to find "choose.dir()" in my current R install (see
below)? Didn't
> that exist at some point? How to achieve "file.choose()"
equivalent
> functionality for directories?
> 
> Thanks for any hints, Joh
> 
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8          LC_NUMERIC=C
>  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8           LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8       LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8          LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8        LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8    LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> other attached packages:
> [1] rkward_0.5.3
> 
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.11.1

Dear Joh,

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:18 AM, Johannes Graumann
<johannes_graumann at web.de> wrote:
> OK. Just checked and "choose.file"/"choose.dir" exists
in the windows
> version - apparently not in the linux one ... does anybody have a nice
> platform-agnostic solution for this?
>
> Thanks, Joh
>
[snip]

Have a look at tk_choose.files in the tcltk package.

library(tcltk)
?tk_choose.files

Good luck,
Jay


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