[R-sig-Debian] fluxbox, ess and redrawing r windows
tyler
tyler.smith at mail.mcgill.ca
Thu Jan 29 21:22:01 CET 2009
Dirk Eddelbuettel writes:
>
> On 29 January 2009 at 13:49, tyler wrote:
> | 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.
> |
> | Has anyone else experienced this? Anybody have any ideas how to fix
> | this?
>
> I think with the 'static' graphics model of R you are stuck with this
> behaviour. I sometimes just force 'dev.set()' and another 'plot()'.
>
> Switching to the JavaGD package / graphics device may help. Speaking of
> which, we now have rJava in Debian unstable [ and it installs fine on testing
> ] as package 'r-cran-rjava', so using these dynamic extension may now be
> easier.
>
Thanks for the explanation Dirk, and to the others for the suggested
work-arounds. I'll take a look at rJava and see how it goes.
Tyler
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