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Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 16:22:25 +0000
From: David Whiting <dave@192.168.57.2>
To: Stephen Eglen <stephen@anc.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: is it possible to display plots in an emacs buffer?
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On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:47:32PM +0100, Stephen Eglen wrote:
>  > Lets try:
>  > is it possible to display the plots R makes inside an emacs buffer?
>  > 
>  > I hope to get the usual answer... ;-)
> Yes!
> 
> But that's a qualified yes...  I think it is _possible_, but as far as
> I know, no-one has invested time in it.

I once played with using w3m in emacs and outputing from R to html and
displaying the html in R.  w3m is a text-based browser but is able to
show images.  

http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/david.whiting/R-w3m.html

Here is an example of some code that was posted to the r-help mailing
list a while back that made use of RHTML (I think).  I can't remember
much about the code though, except that I was able to run it as it was
and get this output.

http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/david.whiting/R-w3m-example.png

If all you want to do is display a plot, then you could create a png
file and then display that using w3m:

(w3m-goto-url "file:///myplot.png")

At the moment this is still probably more work than you would want it to
be, though.

Dave

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