[R] ESS/rterm problem

[Richard M. Heiberger]

Thanks for commenting on essd-r32.

I tested rw633 a few days ago.  You indeed have fixed several issues.
For me the focus difficulty in rw632 graphics was a problem.  That is now
working correctly in rw633.

The loss of the first call to a device is puzzling.  I found, and put in the
startup sequence of essd-r32, that calling x11() first, then a plot() command,
made the window visible.  If I called a plot() command without first calling
x11() then the window was invisible.

I have been assuming that the blocking of events from the process was
a consequence of the program not running in bash.  From your file base.html
   Rterm.exe will run from a command line such as an MS-DOS or Commands
   Window running the standard shells, command.com (9x) and cmd.exe (NT)
   but not bash.exe from the Cygwin B20 distribution nor tcsh.exe.
This looks to me like the single-process-at-a-time behavior that DOS lives in.
I therefore assume that making the Rterm work from a bash shell will solve
this and related problems.

Actually, you may have solved that problem already.  I just ran rw633 with
M-x R-sh-dos which you can get from
http:/astro.ocis.temple.edu/~rmh/essd-r32-sh-dos.el
and the graphics window exists with plot() and without first saying x11().
The graph did not come to the front by itself.  I did need to find it with
Alt-Tab, but it was findable.  You might as will pick up
http:/astro.ocis.temple.edu/~rmh/essd-r32.el
while you are there.  It is funcitonally identical to the ESS 5.1.3 distributed
version.  The differneces are that it now specifies rw633 and I have changed
the comments and startup message to reflect the changes you made in rw633.

I have a request for Rterm under ESS.  When I quit with q(), I get a windows
message box asking for confirmation.  The windows box is behind the emacs and
therefore invisible.  I would like that message to appear in the *R* buffer.
Thanks

Rich
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