Many thanks, Peter. Simple, works perfectly, and nigh on impossible to figure out without your help.
To summarize...in my example, I need to do: junk[[0,0]] <- as.tclObj(lbl,drop=T) # instead of junk[[0,0]]<-lbl It works for spaces, brackets, parentheses, and all manner of special characters. -Dan On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 12:08 PM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > “Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve > forgotten this before.” ― Steven Wright > > Check if this might be the same issue as the one of embedded spaces in > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-January/378558.html > > -pd > > > On 21 Jan 2016, at 02:12 , Dalthorp, Daniel <ddalth...@usgs.gov> wrote: > > > > I know it should not be difficult to write the string: > > > > i<-4 > > j<-17 > > lbl<-paste0("[", i, ", ", j, "]") > > > > # to a table, but I'm having a devil of a time trying to figure out how > to > > do it. > > # the following gives lbl surrounded by braces. > > > > tt<-tktoplevel() > > tfr <- tkframe(tt) > > tkgrid(tfr) > > junk<-tclArray() > > junk[[0,0]]<-lbl > > table1<-tkwidget(tfr,"table", rows=1, cols=1, variable=junk) > > tkgrid(table1) > > > > > > How to write without the braces? > > > > Any quick suggestions would be very much appreciated...I've burned much > > time trying to figure this should-be-simple problem out. > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > -- > > 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 [[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.