[R] Is it possible to modify the position of the graphic window ?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

1) Did you merge the resources or restart X?  You need to in order to get 
new resources to be recognized.

xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources would be needed to merge resources into the 
current X session.

I don't know if MacOS X11 is standard enough to support this, but it is a 
very long-standing basic part of X11.

2)
options(device=function() x11(xpos=-1))
plot(1:10)

should work (does for me): it does not affect x11() in any way, just the 
auto-start graphics device.

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Rolf Turner wrote:

>
> On 7/11/2007, at 6:39 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>
>> Better to use resources.  But you can use (in .Rprofile)
>>
>> options(device=function() x11(xpos=-1))
>>
>> The resources version would be to put in ~/.Xresources something like
>>
>> R_x11*geometry: 700x700-0+0
>
> 	Neither of these options appears to have any effect under Mac OSX.
> 	I run R from the command line from a terminal window (not from the GUI)
> 	and I have X11 installed so that in R
>
> 		> x11()
>
> 	does indeed put up a graphics window.  But it always puts it (the
> initial
> 	window) in exactly the same place, irrespective of my having put the
> 	specified line in ~/.Xresources before starting R, or having issued the
> 	specified options() command immediately after having started R (before
> 	issuing the x11() command).
>
> 	It's no big deal --- I'm reasonably happy with the default position
> of the
> 	window.  I just hate it when a computer refuses to follow
> instructions, with
> 	no explanation. :-(
>
> 			cheers,
>
> 				Rolf Turner
>
> P. S.:
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.6.0 (2007-10-03)
> i386-apple-darwin8.10.1
>
> locale:
> C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] misc_0.0-2
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] rcompgen_0.1-15
>
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