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R: Function to build a widget for inputing database arguments

dbArgsWidget

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Function to build a widget for inputing database arguments

Description

This functions creates a interactive widget to allow users to input arguments for database connection for Unix.

Usage

dbArgsWidget()

Details

Database arguments include database name, user name, password, host name, and table name.

Value

The function returns a list containing the following elements:

`dbname`	a charater string for the name of the database
`host`	a character string for the name or IP address of the host machine
`user`	a character string for the name of the user
`password`	a character string for the password
`tablename`	a character string for the name of the database table

Author(s)

Jianhua Zhang

References

Rdbi

Examples

if(interactive()){
    test <- dbArgsWidget()
}

Results


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> library(tkWidgets)
Error in library(tkWidgets) : there is no package called 'tkWidgets'
Execution halted