[R] using command line flags with TINN-R

[roger bos]

Philippe,

I have no idea what "R call-tip server" means, but I will invoke it
and see what happens.  I will also read the FAQ more.  Thanks for your
help.

Thanks,

Roger

On Apr 7, 2005 1:53 AM, Philippe Grosjean <phgrosjean at sciviews.org> wrote:
> roger bos wrote:
> > This is a TINN-R editor question rather than an R question, but can
> > anyone tell me how to use command line flags with TINN-R.  There is a
> > space to fill in the path to Rgui, and I have "C:\Program
> > Files\R\rw2001pat\bin\Rgui.exe".  If I try to add a command line flag
> > after that, such as " --no-save" or " --max-mem-size" then TINN-R will
> > not open the application.
> 
> No that does not work, but you can consider working in the other way:
> starting Tinn-R while you start R. Then you have all the flexibility to
> define whatever command line argument you want for R.
> 
> There are many ways to do so, but I personally use the following one:
> 
> 1) I define:
> 
> > options(IDE = "c:/program files/tinn-R/bin/tinn-R.exe")
> 
> (of course, the path should reflect the place you actually installed
> Tinn-R!)
> 
> and then, I start the svGUI package (from the SciViews bundle available
> on CRAN).
> 
> > library(svGUI)
> 
> Tinn-R is started (if not already running), and also, the R call-tip
> server (live calculation of call-tips for the syntax of R functions) is
> activated behind the scene.
> 
> If you are happy with this, and would like to start Tinn-R and activate
> the R call-tip server automatically everytime you start R, just add
> those two lines of code in your 'Rprofile' file (the general 'Rprofile'
> is in /etc subdirectory of the R directory).
> 
> Once it is done, do not worry about starting Tinn-R, or R from within
> Tinn-R, just start R with all the command line options you like, and you
> get Tinn-R started automatically (if it is not running yet)!
> 
> Note that this tip is in FAQ 3.8, in the new version of Tinn-R FAQ to be
>  released soon, together with the latest stable Tinn-R 1.15.1.7 next
> week or so ;-)
> 
> Best,
> 
> Philippe
> 
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