[R-SIG-Mac] X11 with aquamacs

Vincent Goulet vincent.goulet at act.ulaval.ca
Wed Oct 15 14:59:25 CEST 2008


Le lun. 6 oct. à 12:09, stephen sefick a écrit :

> I have aqua macs installed.  I would like to use this with a R 2.7.2
> that I built on os x 10.3.9.  R works fine in the X11 terminal, but I
> can not copy and paste ...  I would like to use aquamacs as my
> interface to R.  It starts up fine and interfaces with R preforms
> computations,  but when i issue the X11() command it does not open up
> a window.  I used the command at the x11 terminal as to the aquamacs
> FAQ
> export DISPLAY=0.0
>
> then I checked to see if aquamacs recognized to use x11 (I don't
> remember the exact command right now) and it returned nil.  So, how do
> I get aquamacs to interface with x11.

I'd recommend using the quartz() device instead of the x11() one. The  
display is much nicer and it doesn't require X11. Just put

	options(device = "quartz")

in your ~/.Rprofile file to set it as the default device.

HTH   Vincent


>
>
> thanks
>
> -- 
> Stephen Sefick
> Research Scientist
> Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy
>
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> annoying little problems of being mammals.
>
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   Université Laval, Québec
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