[R] Interactive plot

[David Scott]

Googling MDI gives a wikipedia entry in the first place which should 
explain things.

David Scott

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On 7/24/2008 8:24 AM, Megh Dal wrote:
>> Thanks for this. Can you please explain me what are those MDI and SDI and 
>> the diff in laymans language?
>
> Not really.  Just try them both, the differences are obvious.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>> 
>> 
>> --- 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
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