> Once you're up to speed on those issues... Any suggestions for getting up to speed on those issues?
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:46 AM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 21 Jan 2016, at 00:25 , Dalthorp, Daniel <ddalth...@usgs.gov> wrote: > > > > Thanks, Peter. > > > > I'm sure that's right, but it requires knowing: (1) that there's > something called the "width subcommand", and (2) how to format the call to > that command/subcommand. > > > > Yes, there's a fair amount of that going on with the tcltk interface. You > need to both grasp the rules for passing arguments to the underlying Tcl > command, and know how to find and read the Tcl/Tk documentation. Once > you're up to speed on those issues it's not all that hard to find stuff in > (for the present case), say, > http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tktable/doc/tkTable.html > > The situation may be unfortunate, but the alternative is for "someone" to > sit down an convert all relevant Tcl/Tk documentation to R help files. > > -pd > > > > I was able to do it eventually but only after a few hours of effort > searching the web for help. > > > > E.g. with a table (called table1) with 3 columns and want to set widths > to 30, 5, and 5: > > > > colwidths<-c(30, 5, 5) > > > > for(i in 1:3) { > > tcl(table1, "width", i - 1, colwidths[i]) > > } > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:07 PM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > On 19 Jan 2016, at 20:48 , Dalthorp, Daniel <ddalth...@usgs.gov> > wrote: > > > > > > Does anyone know a simple way to create a tcltk table with columns of > > > varying widths? > > > > Create a table, then set the width of the columns with the width > subcommand? > > > > -pd > > > > > > pathName width ?col? ?value col value ...? If no col is specified, > returns a list describing all cols for which a width has been set. If col > is specified with no value, it prints out the width of that col in > characters (positive number) or pixels (negative number). If one or more > col-value pairs are specified, then it sets each col to be that width in > characters (positive number) or pixels (negative number). If value is > default, then the col uses the default width, specified by -colwidth. > > > > > > > > > > > > -Dan > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Dan Dalthorp, PhD > > > USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center > > > Forest Sciences Lab, Rm 189 > > > 3200 SW Jefferson Way > > > Corvallis, OR 97331 > > > ph: 541-750-0953 > > > ddalth...@usgs.gov > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > -- > > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > > Phone: (+45)38153501 > > Office: A 4.23 > > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Dan Dalthorp, PhD > > USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center > > Forest Sciences Lab, Rm 189 > > 3200 SW Jefferson Way > > Corvallis, OR 97331 > > ph: 541-750-0953 > > ddalth...@usgs.gov > > > > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Office: A 4.23 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > > > -- Dan Dalthorp, PhD USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center Forest Sciences Lab, Rm 189 3200 SW Jefferson Way Corvallis, OR 97331 ph: 541-750-0953 ddalth...@usgs.gov [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
