Amusing way to get user input windows in R

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

In an unlikely scenario that beautiful Shiny apps do not meet your analytical requirements and developing a full-blown user interface. in RGtk2 may seem to be a little too much, there is a third, often overlooked solution, - package svDialogs by Philippe Grosjean. The package in a convenient way enables user to create various interface gadgets. For example the code:

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require(svDialogs)

## Let's keep some data in one place
user_figure <- svDialogs::dlg_input()

would result in the following window being presented to the user:

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Amusing way to get user input windows in R