[R] R script to start session (without automatically finishing)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

So you have to write a script that will not terminate until you 'press a 
button or something like this'.  That's easy to do, but as you haven't 
told us your OS.  E.g. on Windows, call winDialogString at the end.

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Philipp Fechteler wrote:

> Hello R friends
>
> I am quite impressed by the power of R, I am using it only since some
> weeks now. But its visualizing capabilities are outstanding!
>
> But one thing I couldn't solve: I have programs producing lots of data,
> most times 3D. In R I am using the library rgl to visualize nicely the
> 3D data.
>
> What I would like to do is to write R scipts which read in a data file
> and show me the 3D rgl plot. So that on the command line I just call my
> newly written R script, which pops up the rgl window. This session
> should run until I close the rgl window or press a button or something
> like this.
>
> Currently, I can write R scripts
> - using Rscript or
> - http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/05/0500.html
> But both approaches contain the problem that the rgl window pops up for
> just a moment, and then the program terminates.
>
>
> Does any body has an idea, what to do? Help would be very appreciated.
>
> Thank's a lot and ... Marry Christmas + Happy New Year
>
> Philipp
>
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Dipl.-Ing. Philipp Fechteler
> Department Image Processing
> Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications
> Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI)
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> 10587 Berlin, Germany
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