[R-SIG-Mac] Setting quartz() as default in ESS

[Christopher David Desjardins]

Thanks Kasper and Prof. Brian. Using Sys.setenv in ~/.Rprofile fixed it.
Chris

On Mar 12, 2009, at 8:51 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:

> The easiest way for you, is to put your Sys.setenv command inside a  
> file called .Rprofile, locate in the root of your home directory,  
> ie. ~/.Rprofile
>
> Commands in this file gets run when you start R.
>
> Kasper
>
> On Mar 12, 2009, at 13:29 , Christopher David Desjardins wrote:
>
>> Thanks. I've seen this posted on the internet and here as well but  
>> I'm
>> not sure I understand the syntax for setting it permanently. When I  
>> run
>>
>> Sys.setnenv(R_INTERACTIVE_DEVICE="quartz")
>>
>> It works fine until I close R and then I when I open R again via ESS
>> X11 is called. I am sorry if this seems like a redundant question.
>> I've really googled this and found this https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2008-October/005402.html
>> and similar posts but I'm not sure how it helps. I've read the
>> device section in options() but it still remains unclear to me.
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> On Mar 12, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>>
>>> See ?options, look at 'device'.
>>>
>>> This is getting to be an FAQ ....
>>>
>>> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Christopher David Desjardins wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi, I am running CarbonEmacs and calling R from ESS. When I graph
>>>> data  the default device in ESS is X11() and I'd prefer it to call
>>>> quartz() instead. Is there a way that I can do this by default
>>>> without having to specify quartz() prior to running a graph?
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Chris
>>>> -----------------
>>>> Christopher David Desjardins
>>>> Ph.D. Student
>>>> Quantitative Methods in Education
>>>> Department of Educational Psychology
>>>> University of  Minnesota
>>>> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/desja004/educationalpsychology/
>>>
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>>
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>> Christopher David Desjardins
>> Ph.D. Student
>> Quantitative Methods in Education
>> Department of Educational Psychology
>> University of  Minnesota
>> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/desja004/educationalpsychology/
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Christopher David Desjardins
Ph.D. Student
Quantitative Methods in Education
Department of Educational Psychology
University of  Minnesota
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/desja004/educationalpsychology/