I assume that you are using the GUI version then.  There are a couple of ways you can do this.

1.
With R running click on the "Edit" menu, then on "GUI preferences" and a new dialog box will pop up.  At the top choose the SDI radio button. Save the settings, quit R and restart.

Now every window (terminal, graphics, script, etc.) will be in its own window rather than embedded in a single bigger window, just drag the graphics window(s) to the other monitor.

2.
Install one of the cairo packages and use the cairo graphics device.

This has a separate window for the graphics that can be dragged to the other monitor.


There are probably other ways as well, but those 2 should be  fairly straight forward. (I have not tested them on windows 7, but they should work the same as on other windows versions).


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Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow@imail.org
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From: Gunnar Carnwath [mailto:gunnar_carnwath@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 10:38 AM
To: Greg Snow; r-help@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] Display R graphics windows in second monitor

I am using Windows 7 and installed R using all the default settings.

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Gunnar Carnwath
PhD Candidate, University of Montana
College of Forestry and Conservation
509.675.1540
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From: Greg Snow <Greg.Snow@imail.org>
To: Gunnar Carnwath <gunnar_carnwath@yahoo.com>; "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org>
Sent: Tue, September 7, 2010 10:35:59 AM
Subject: RE: [R] Display R graphics windows in second monitor

What operating system are you using and how do you run R within that OS?

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Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
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801.408.8111


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> I would like to display the R graphics window on one monitor of my
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> while simultaneously working with the R console and multiple script
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> in another monitor.  Is this possible?  I know I can use Tinn R or
> something
> similar but I would prefer not to use these secondary programs if
> possible.
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
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> -Gunnar Carnwath
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