R Tcl/Tk Primer Tutorial (try twirling round bottom of image for a synopsis ... 'do the twirl now')
Have you heard of R?
R is a free software programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. The R language is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software[2][3] and data analysis.[3] Polls and surveys of data miners are showing R’s popularity has increased substantially in recent years.
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We use it with Tcl/Tk today in showing you a Hello World scenario.
R is a programming language growing in popularity, and unlike D following C in historical context, R follows S in historical context … go figure!
In this primer tutorial you can see Tcl/Tk being used by R to display a Tk window with a tkbutton and tktext.
Useful tutorials (thanks!) helping with this tutorial were
- R for Mac OS X
- R Tcl/Tk coding examples
- R Tcl/Tk – Toplevel Window
- R (programming language) – Wikipedia (source of quote above)
Link to R programming source code you could rename to hello.r
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