gWidgetstcltk
Description
This package provides an implementation of the gWidgets API using the tcltk package. This excellent package allows the R programmer to interface with the tcl/tk libraries.Installation
This package requires the tcltk version 8.5 or newer to work.Linux
8.5 is available, but 8.4 is likely to be installed.Mac OS X
Mac OS X (10.5 anyways) comes with 8.4. To install 8.5 one can a) install the XCode software (which may be standard with the OS) b) download tcl and tk from http://www.tcl.tk c) compile it via the magic configure, make, make install incantation. (It worked for me anyways)Windows
The 8.5 version comes with R as of 2.7.0, so you are good to go.Documentation
The main source for documentation is in the package gWidgets. Differences from that API spelled out there in the help files are documented (hopefully) in the help page for gWidgetstcltk which can be read with
?gWidgetstcltk
The gWidgets API is in need of fine tuning, but for the most
part is spelled out in these pages.
The gWidgets package also has a vignette with many examples. As of version 0.0-29 this is in need of updating, so some examples may not work.
The gWidgets website has several examples available to try out.