With {svDialogs}, you can rapidly construct standard dialog boxes for your GUI, including message boxes, input boxes, list, file or directory selection, ... In case R cannot display GUI dialog boxes, a simpler command line version of these interactive elements is provided as fallback solution (e.g., in a terminal session).
You can install the released version of {svDialogs} from CRAN with:
install.packages("svDialogs")
You can also install the latest development version. Make sure you have the {remotes} R package installed:
install.packages("remotes")
Use install_github()
to install the {svDialogs} package from GitHub (source from master branch will be recompiled on your machine):
remotes::install_github("SciViews/svDialogs")
The latest stable version of {svDialogs} can simply be installed from CRAN:
install.packages(c("svGUI", svDialogs"))
R should install all required dependencies automatically, and then it should compile and install {svDialogs}.
Latest devel version of {svDialogs} (source + Windows binaries for the latest stable version of R at the time of compilation) is also available from appveyor.
You can get further help about this package this way: Make the {svDialogs} package available in your R session:
library("svDialogs")
Get help about this package:
library(help = "svDialogs")
help("svDialogs-package")
vignette("svDialogs") # None is installed with install_github()
For further instructions, please, refer to the help pages at https://www.sciviews.org/svDialogs/.
Please note that the svDialogs project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.
This package used to be developed on R-Forge in the past. However, the latest R-Forge version was moved to this GitHub repository on 2018-04-02 (SVN version 569). Please, do not use R-Forge anymore for SciViews development, use this GitHub repository instead.