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

[Philipp Fechteler]

Hello Mr Ripley

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thank you for helping. I am running on Linux. But I think the getchar() 
like call should be inside the R script. So is there something like this 
in R or any loadable module, e.g. a function sleeping until a key is 
pressed and returning the key code?


Greetings
Philipp


> 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)
>> Einsteinufer 37
>> 10587 Berlin, Germany
>> Phone    +49 30 31002 616
>> Fax    +49 30 392 72 00
>> Email    philipp.fechteler at hhi.fraunhofer.de
>> WWW    http://iphome.hhi.de/fechteler
>> ________________________________________________________________________
> 
> 


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Dipl.-Ing. Philipp Fechteler
Department Image Processing
Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications
Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI)
Einsteinufer 37
10587 Berlin, Germany
Phone	+49 30 31002 616
Fax	+49 30 392 72 00
Email	philipp.fechteler at hhi.fraunhofer.de
WWW	http://iphome.hhi.de/fechteler
________________________________________________________________________

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