[R] Turning windows screen buffering on and off

[Philippe Grosjean]

The buffered output is a nice thing, and if the user want to use it, then
fine! However, it should be nice to know if it is set ON or OFF, and to
temporarily change it for some outputs in R scripts. I think this is the
primary request. Then, your request appears to me as a secondary one: to set
buffered output ON or OFF at statup of Rgui (by defining it in the
preference panel). Personnally, I would really like to have both.
Best,

Philippe Grosjean

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-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of
Benjamin.STABLER at odot.state.or.us
Sent: Friday, 16 April, 2004 18:09
To: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: RE: [R] Turning windows screen buffering on and off


Well, I too would like to be able to set buffered output to false for Rgui
Windows without user intervention.  Maybe it could be set via the Edit ->
Gui Preferences so that it can be saved and set at startup.  The GUI
Preferences are part of the interface and not the standard language
definition right?...so that seems to be a good spot to set something like
that.

Benjamin Stabler
Transportation Planning Analysis Unit
Oregon Department of Transportation
555 13th Street NE, Suite 2
Salem, OR 97301  Ph: 503-986-4104

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Message: 75
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:59:43 +0100 (BST)
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: [R] Turning windows screen buffering on and off
To: <Toby.Patterson at csiro.au>
Cc: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
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No, and options() really is part of the R/S language not the interface.

See the rw-FAQ Q6.3 for how to manage the buffering more effectively.
(Hint: you need to put calls to flush.console() in your code.)


On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 Toby.Patterson at csiro.au wrote:

> I meant via a function or something like:
>
> options( buffered.output = FALSE)
>
> Sorry, I should have made that clearer.
>
> Cheers
> Toby
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger D. Peng [mailto:rpeng at jhsph.edu]
> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 1:11 PM
> To: Patterson, Toby (Marine, Hobart)
> Cc: R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] Turning windows screen buffering on and off
>
> Ctrl-W.
>
> -roger
>
> Toby.Patterson at csiro.au wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Does anyone know if there is an option I can set to turn
> screen-buffered
> > output on and off with the win32 rgui? (Apart from the point and click
> > method).
> >
> > I am running some simulations where it is useful to watch output but
> it
> > gets mildly tiresome having to manually switch things on and off via
> the
> > gui.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Toby.
> >
> >
> >>version
> >
> >          _
> > platform i386-pc-mingw32
> > arch     i386
> > os       mingw32
> > system   i386, mingw32
> > status
> > major    1
> > minor    8.1
> > year     2003
> > month    11
> > day      21
> > language R
> >
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