[R-SIG-Mac] If you're well and truly bored you might want to play with this...

Jan de Leeuw deleeuw at stat.ucla.edu
Fri Mar 28 09:12:09 MET 2003


It is not true that the quartz device never responds to events. If
I run R using Rpy in PythonIDE or IDLE, it does respond (I can
drag it, bring it to the foreground, minimize it, close it).

On Friday, Mar 28, 2003, at 09:04 US/Pacific, Thomas Lumley wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Jan de Leeuw wrote:
>
>> Funky. There is a way to get graphics from StatPaper. Just type
>>
>> quartz()
>> demo(graphics)
>>
>> and evaluate the document. Unfortunately the graphics window
>> does not respond to events. My guess is that for this to work,
>> R should sit in StatPaper, or should be part of a framework
>> build.
>>
>
> The quartz device never responds to events. It isn't finished yet.
>
> Another way is with
>    x11(display=":0")
> if you download Apple's X server (which is now just point-and-click).
>
> 	-thomas
>
>
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