[R-sig-Debian] fluxbox, ess and redrawing r windows

[Anne Ghisla]

Hi all,

tyler ha scritto:
> Johannes Ranke writes:
>  > 
>  > what about setting
>  > 
>  > R> par(mfcol=c(2,2))
>  > 
> 
> That would reduce the number of windows, so there'd be less juggling,
> but the problem is still there - even if I have four plots in one
> window, if I can't get that window to show up when I want it, I still
> have a problem. And it wouldn't help at all with lattice plots.

A couple of hints:

If you need comparing different plots viewing them in side-to-side 
windows, you can save them as .eps with a command like
R> dev2eps()
after each redraw of the window, and handle them with an external viewer.

If you need to view plots during your R elaboration but one after the 
other, you can make R wait for user signal (arrow, Enter...) to refresh 
the window just like some demos do, for example demo(graphics).

hope this helps, and good work with R and fluxbox!

> 
>  > And by the way, you could also use vim with R ;-)
> 
> That'd be like serving caviar on a piece of mouldy bread! I did check,
> though, running R from the command line. The same issue comes up, so
> the problem is not coming from Emacs.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tyler

cheers,

Anne who uses R with Kate ;)

> 
>  > 
>  > Just my 2c,
>  > 
>  > Hannes
>  > 
>  > 
>  > * tyler <tyler.smith at mail.mcgill.ca> [090129 18:50]:
>  > > Hi,
>  > > 
>  > > I'm running Lenny with Fluxbox, interacting with R via Emacs + ESS. An
>  > > ongoing aggravation with this setup is trying to get R graphics windows
>  > > redrawn. 
>  > > 
>  > > For example, I may have 8 or 10 R graphics windows open, and I switch
>  > > between them using Alt-tab. The problem is, sometimes the windows remain
>  > > blank. Sometimes I can get the display back by moving the window with
>  > > the mouse, or switching focus away from the window, then returning to
>  > > it. Other times, they just stubbornly refuse to show me their contents.
>  > > The problem is compounded when I want to compare three or four plots at
>  > > the same time - getting all four windows to show their contents at the
>  > > same time is incredibly frustrating.
>  > > 
>  > > Has anyone else experienced this? Anybody have any ideas how to fix
>  > > this?
>  > > 
>  > > Thanks,
>  > > 
>  > > Tyler
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>  > Dr. Johannes Ranke                 jranke at uni-bremen.de
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