[Rd] R plot display problem under windows when using python rpy module.

[Bo Peng]

On 1/9/06, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> How is Rpy calling R?  Presumably R is running single-threaded, and the
> problem is likely to be that Rpy is using blocking I/O on the R process
> and hence blocking the GUI callbacks that drive the window.
>
> The not-so-simple answer is not to do it that way.  It might be well
> sufficient to turn windows() buffering off -- see its help page.

Using
>>> from rpy import *
>>> r.options(windowsBuffered=False)
>>> r.plot(0)
solves the problem.

Thank you very much! I will suggest that rpy developers address this problem.

Bo