[R] Interactive plot

[Megh Dal]

Thanks for this. Can you please explain me what are those MDI and SDI and the diff in laymans language?


--- On Thu, 7/24/08, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:

> From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>
> Subject: Re: [R] Interactive plot
> To: megh700004 at yahoo.com
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008, 5:42 PM
> On 7/24/2008 7:34 AM, Megh Dal wrote:
> > I have created following interactive plot :
> > 
> > library(TeachingDemos)
> > plott = function(x)
> >    {
> >     return(hist(rnorm(as.integer(1000, 10, x)),
> xlab=NA))
> >    }
> > tkexamp(plott,
> list(x=list('slider',from=1,to=40, resolution=0.1,
> init=2)), plotloc='top')
> > 
> > Here everything works fine, but the problaem is
> whenever I try to drag the slider the entire plot window
> goind behind the screen. Can anyone please tell me what
> should I do?
> 
> 
> It sounds as though you are using Windows, and running R in
> MDI mode. 
> tcltk doesn't work very well in this mode.  You really
> need to shrink 
> the MDI frame and move the tcltk window outside of it, or
> run in SDI 
> mode, where all windows are more or less equal.
> 
> You can select SDI mode by putting --sdi on the command
> line, or from 
> the Edit|GUI preferences dialog.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch