For this particular situation, a dialog box with separate entry for month, day, and year might be the best solution. Thanks.
The user is on a unix-based machine (a Mac with OS 10.4x) but I am expecting him to upgrade to Leopard before long. So I'm already struggling with TclTk issues with him. Barry Rowlingson wrote: > > 2008/12/31 Tubin <sredmon...@yahoo.com>: >> >> Hm. This looks like a fantastic package in general... but for this >> particular project I would rather not have to redo the entire program to >> run >> in Rpad. And it is not immediately evident that I could use Rpad just >> for >> the function of getting values for a couple of date variables... Or have >> I >> misunderstood? > > If this is for running on a Unix-based system you could install > xdialog and use the calendar box widget: > > http://xdialog.free.fr/ > > but there is no windows version as far as I can see. > > You might be able to use Perl/Tk and Tk-DateEntry on Windows: > > http://search.cpan.org/~srezic/Tk-DateEntry-1.38/DateEntry.pm > > but that would require Perl, Perl/Tk, and a way of calling that from > R (probably using system()). > > You could build something simpler in pure R using library(tcltk) - > the easiest thing to do would probably be three drop-down widgets for > day, month, year. Building a full calendar widget might be tricky... > > Barry > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Suggestions-for-inputting-a-date-via-a-dialog-box--tp21237197p21244593.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
