[R] interactive file choosing in Linux?

[Romain Francois]

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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> platform       i486-pc-linux-gnu          
> arch           i486                       
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> system         i486, linux-gnu            
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> day            22                         
> svn rev        47281                      
> language       R                          
> version.string R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
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