require(tcltk) || stop("tcltk support is absent") local({ tt <- tktoplevel() tkwm.title(tt, "R FAQ") txt <- tktext(tt, bg="white", font="courier") scr <- tkscrollbar(tt, repeatinterval=5, command=function(...)tkyview(txt,...)) ## Safest to make sure scr exists before setting yscrollcommand tkconfigure(txt, yscrollcommand=function(...)tkset(scr,...)) tkpack(txt, side="left", fill="both", expand=TRUE) tkpack(scr, side="right", fill="y") chn <- tclvalue(tkcmd("open", file.path(Sys.getenv("R_HOME"),"FAQ"))) tkinsert(txt, "end", tclvalue(tkcmd("read", chn))) tkcmd("close", chn) tkconfigure(txt, state="disabled") tkmark.set(txt,"insert","0.0") tkfocus(txt) cat("******************************************************\n", "The source for this demo can be found in the file:\n", file.path(system.file(package = "tcltk"), "demo", "tkfaq.R"), "\n******************************************************\n") })