[R] tk_choose.files without multiple selection?

[Eger, Marcus]

Thanks a lot.
I installed tcl8.5 and tk8.5 (version 8.5.6) of ubuntu jaunty (there were no conflicts with dependencies <=> hardy) and everything works.
Regards

	Marcus
  

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk] 
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2009 22:42
> An: Eger, Marcus
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
> Betreff: Re: [R] tk_choose.files without multiple selection?
> 
> This depends on the version of Tk you have installed.  The Tk 
> 8.5.7 ChangeLog has
> 
> 2008-08-25  Todd M. Helfter <tmh at users.sourceforge.net>
> 
>          The patch is associated with the bug tracker id: 1936220
>          library/tkfbox.tcl : fix the multiple selection error for
>          tk_getOpenFile -multiple 1 which fails on all unix 
> platforms since
>          the adoption of ttk widgets.
> 
> for just after 8.5.4.
> 
> So I suggest you update your OS's Tcl/Tk if it is older than 
> that (and that fix is 14 months old, so one would hope that 
> your OS has updates available).
> 
> R for Windows ships with 8.5.6, R for Mac OS X with 8.5.5.
> 
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Eger, Marcus wrote:
> 
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I compared tk_choose.files on linux with choose.files or 
> > tk_choose.files on windows and found that tk_choose.files does not 
> > allow multiple selection on linux - independent on keyword setting 
> > "multi".
> 
> >> 
> tk_choose.files(default=paste(path.original,"",sep=""),caption="Selec
> >> t file(s)")
> >
> > On linux I get the error message:
> >    File <list of selected filenames> does not exist.
> > I have to click "cancel" to get out of the dialog.
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Regards
> > 	Marcus
> >
> > Windows XP:
> > -----------
> > platform       i386-pc-mingw32
> > arch           i386
> > os             mingw32
> > system         i386, mingw32
> > status
> > major          2
> > minor          9.2
> > year           2009
> > month          08
> > day            24
> > svn rev        49384
> > language       R
> > version.string R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24)
> >
> >
> > Linux Ubuntu 8.04.3:
> > --------------------
> > platform       i486-pc-linux-gnu
> > arch           i486
> > os             linux-gnu
> > system         i486, linux-gnu
> > status
> > major          2
> > minor          9.2
> > year           2009
> > month          08
> > day            24
> > svn rev        49384
> > language       R
> > version.string R version 2.9.2 (2009-08-24)
> 
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