[ESS] Graphics in emacs window: how to copy R screen devices in non-interactive sessions (remotes)

[Vitalie Spinu]

The whole thing is stuck in emacs image support which is pretty limited
at this stage. I am working on a rewrite of emacs' image related
functionality (https://github.com/vspinu/image-transform) and it's quite
close to completion. My next target is to make image fetching and
display work through R-nREPL connections
(https://github.com/vspinu/R-nREPL). Then, I might consider some simple
ESS integration, but it's not the priority at the moment. I am
determined to build a new R IDE based on rigorous communication
protocol. So most my free time will be spent there.

  Vitalie

 >>> Michael Lawrence on Sat, 24 Jan 2015 15:16:41 -0800 wrote:

 > This indeed would be great to have. The evaluate package offers one
 > way forward for the technical issue discussed earlier in the thread.
 > If there is anything R could do to make this easier, please let me
 > know.

 > On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Ista Zahn <istazahn using gmail.com> wrote:
 >> Sorry for bringing back this very old thread, but I would be happy to
 >> hear if there has been any progress towards getting graphics to
 >> display in emacs. Has this been put on the back-burner, or abandoned?
 >> 
 >> Best,
 >> Ista
 >> 
 >> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Yihui Xie <xie using yihui.name> wrote:
 >>> Yes. That seems to be very inefficient at the first sight, but at the
 >>> moment there is no way of knowing whether the current device has been
 >>> updated. In evaluate, we recordPlot() after each expression, and
 >>> compare it with the last recorded plot; if they are identical, we
 >>> discard the current one.
 >>> 
 >>> Regards,
 >>> Yihui
 >>> --
 >>> Yihui Xie <xieyihui using gmail.com>
 >>> Web: http://yihui.name>> Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
 >>> 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >>> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit using gmail.com> wrote:
 >>>> >>> Yihui Xie on Mon, 18 Nov 2013 20:27:53 -0600 wrote:
 >>>> 
 >>>> > Evaluate captures plots after each R expression,
 >>>> 
 >>>> Does that mean that you capture the same plot multiple times if a
 >>>> sub-expression didn't generate any graphic output?
 >>>> 
 >>>> I will look into it, it might be a way to go, though it feels like a
 >>>> very heavy interference with the user input. Moreover, the input must be
 >>>> a syntactically valid expression, and this is often not the case with
 >>>> ESS. R debugger will probably not work, or will it?
 >>>> 
 >>>> 
 >>>> Vitalie
 >>>> 
 >>>> 
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