tkWidgets (version 1.50.0)

vExplorer: An interface to interact with vignette code chunks

Description

This function provides a widget for viewing, editing, and executing code chunks of vignettes.

Usage

vExplorer(title = "BioC Vignettes Explorer", pkgName = "", font =
ifelse(.Platform$OS.type == "unix", "arial 14", "arial 11"))
viewVignette(title, packName, vigPath, font = "arial 11")

Arguments

title

character string for the name to be displayed as the title of the widget to interact with code chunks.

pkgName

vector (of length 1 for pkgName) of character strings for names of Bioconductor packages the code chunks of whose vignettes will be explored.

packName

same as pkgName

vigPath

character string for the full qualified name of a vignette to be explored.

font

a character string for the name and size of the font to be used for text rendered on the widgets (e. g. "arial 11")

Value

This function does not return any useful value.

Details

By default, packNames = "", all the installed packages will be examined and those that have vignettes will be listed to allow users to choose from.

References

http://www.bioconductor.org

Examples

if(interactive()){
    require("DynDoc", character.only = TRUE)
    require("tools", character.only = TRUE)
    require("widgetTools", character.only = TRUE)
    vExplorer()
    path <- path.package("widgetTools")
    vigList <- pkgVignettes("widgetTools")
    viewVignette("BioC VignetteBrowser", "widgetTools", vigList$docs)
}