[R] Suggestions for inputting a date via a dialog box?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Rpad can offer the user a calendar from which they choose a date.
>From the main Rpad page try the Weather Explorer demo for
an example:

http://www.rpad.org

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Tubin <sredmonson at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I've written a program which will be run by someone who isn't an R programmer
> and isn't all that computer-savvy in general.  The user starts the program
> and is prompted to input various information such as location of data files.
> I've used the Sciviews svDialogs package for this with good success.
> (although we're still ironing out tck/tk issues on some of his machines -
> with help from these archives :) .)
>
> My question is:  is there a highly user-friendly way to prompt for
> user-entered dates?  Currently I use a guiDlgInput box and instruct the
> person to use a particular format for the date.  I'd love a package that let
> him click his desired date on a little calendar instead.
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