[R] Output from function to a tcltk window

[Peter Dalgaard]

Henrik Andersson <h.andersson at nioo.knaw.nl> writes:

> I would like to display output to a tcltk window from e.g. a call to
> summary().
> 
> 
> 
> I tried to get something else than oneliners into a text window of the
> kind found at:
> 
> http://bioinf.wehi.edu.au/~wettenhall/RTclTkExamples/TextWindows.html
> 
> But without success.

(Rcmdr must be doing this sort of thing already?)

I'd try this:

1) str <- paste(capture.output(summary(myfit),collapse="\n"))

2) clone the tkfaq demo (or one of James W.'s examples), but replace
   the line

   tkinsert(txt, "end", tkcmd("read", chn))

with 

   tkinsert(txt, "end", str)

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