[BioC] Re: fileBrowser
John Zhang
John Zhang <jzhang@jimmy.harvard.edu>
Mon, 1 Apr 2002 15:20:54 -0500 (EST)
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>Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 14:59:32 -0500 (EST)
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>i agree that sometimes the dirs are sometimes necesary. thats why i
>suggest we implement an option, say 'showdirs=T'
>
>btw, i forgot to mention that on the system where im testing this (redhat
>7.1 running R 1.5) if you select a directory nothing happens.
If you double click a directory, you will go into that directory. Single click
only allows you to choose that directory.
>On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Robert Gentleman wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 02:18:57PM -0500, Rafael A. Irizarry wrote:
>> > hi! some comments about the fileBrowser function.
>> >
>> > 1 - is it possible to have an argumet, say showdirs=F, that lets you
>> > decide if you want to see directories or not. i would usually want to only
>> > see files.
>>
>> The problem with that is: how do you navigate? If you get the
>> working directory right all is well and good -- otherwise you're
>> toast. Jianhua did this in some of the early versions and it could
>> be reinstated.
>>
>> If you think about the example below, usually I have the cdf files
>> in one place and the cel files in another -- I want to select both
>> at one time == navigation
>>
>> >
>> > 2 - is is possible to have an argument, say text="", that lets you add
>> > test that will apear on the widget? for example i would have it say
>> > "choose ond cdf file and any cel file you want to read in"
>> >
>> That should be pretty straight forward.
>>
>> Instructions: (paste your text here).
>>
>>
>> good ideas -- thanks Rafael.
>> (but please -- bioconductor is the place for discussions)
>>
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