Try this: library(fgui) gui(function(year, month, day) as.Date(paste(year, month, day, sep = "-")))
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Tubin <sredmon...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
