[R-SIG-Mac] X11 with aquamacs

[stephen sefick]

quartz does not, but I am very happy with using x11 on 10.3.9-  It is
for tinkering-  when I want to drink some coffee and do a little data
exploration.  I use Sys.setenv(DISPLAY=":0.0") at the start of every
session because I can't seem to get the .Rprofile file to work
correctly.  I have edited my .Rprofile in the home directory, but
indeed it doesn't work (which simply means I don't know what i am
doing).
thanks

Stephen

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Vincent Goulet wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Better to set env variable R_INTERACTIVE_DEVICE as per the help for
> options(), since you don't want a device that does not work in
> non-interactive sessions.  (It is also better to use
> options(device=grDevices::quartz) to ensure visibility of the device when
> you need it, in case something else has a function quartz).
>
> This is assuming that quartz() actually works on 10.3.9: I didn't think it
> did (in the current incarnation).
>
>>
>> HTH   Vincent
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> --
>>> Stephen Sefick
>>> Research Scientist
>>> Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy
>>>
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>>>
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>> Université Laval, Québec
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-- 
Stephen Sefick
Research Scientist
Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy

Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are
so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and
make us feel like gods.  We are mammals, and have not exhausted the
annoying little problems of being mammals.

								-K. Mullis