[R] choose folder interactively

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Wed Nov 28 13:47:58 CET 2012


On 12-11-28 7:39 AM, Ivan Calandra wrote:
> Dear users,
>
> I am looking for a function to choose a folder interactively, just like
> file.choose() but for a folder.
>
> I have found tcltk::tk_choose.dir() but R hangs when I try to do
> anything and I have to force exit.
> I've tried to reinstall tcltk with install.packages(), but "package
> ‘tcltk’ is not available (for R version 2.15.2)" even though it's
> already installed on my computer (it comes with 'base', doesn't it?).
>
>   From a Google Search, I have also found choose.dir(), but it looks like
> this function doesn't exist anymore since ages.
>
> Any idea?

"choose.dir()" does exist on Windows, so you could switch to that OS, or 
write your own equivalent for MacOS.

Duncan Murdoch




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