[R-SIG-Mac] graphics device with record=TRUE

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:42 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On Jul 4, 2012, at 11:47 PM, Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
>
>> David,
>>
>> thank you.  it works.
>>
>> Where is it documented?
>
> The first place I find written documentation of the cmd-arrow
> functions  is in the R MacOSX FAQ:
> 12.8 Why are Quartz plots much bigger than they used to be?
> (Second paragraph)
>
> (I may have read about the stack depth in one of the postings from
> Simon in this venue. The figure of ten is a rough guess. The true
> value is somewhere  in the range of 8 to 15.)
>
>>  I want to set the depth to something much larger than 10.
>
> I have not found a place for users to change this. May be that a
> compile time change is needed. (Simon will hopefully correct me if
> this is wrong.)
>
> I tried searching MarkMail's archive with a couple of strategies, ...
> the last unsuccessful one was:
>
> http://markmail.org/search/?q=simon+urbanek+list%3Aorg.r-project.r-sig-mac+graphics+increase#query
> :simon%20urbanek%20list%3Aorg.r-project.r-sig-mac%20graphics%20increase
> +page:2+mid:ykmzj6mwesj3wywu+state:results
>
> (I don't know if that will be paste-worthy or click-worthy.)
>
>
>> I don't see anything about the stack on the ?quartz page
>> and there appears not to be any control option on the quartz menu
>> item on the device
>> itself.
>
> If the Quartz window is the focus, the Quartz menu options will become
> active  and even if not the focus the menu will also tell you the
> keyboard equivalents (standard Mac behavior). I think that is where I
> learned it.

When the quartz window is in focus I get (this is R compiled myself
and started from Terminal.  The same from within emacs):

On the menu bar I get headings
...
R
Edit
Quartz
Window

Edit has submenus copy and paste which are very nice if you want to
save the plot
Quartz has submenus Back and Forward bound to Apple + Left/Right arrow


>
>
>>
>> Rich
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:35 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net
>> > wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 4, 2012, at 11:12 PM, Richard M. Heiberger wrote:
>>
>> The windows feature I miss most on the Mac is a graphics device that
>> remembers the previous graphs,
>> specifically
>> windows.options(record=TRUE)  ## R for Windows
>>
>> Is there a similar feature available on the macintosh?
>>
>> There is a graphics stack, whose default depth is 10, and you can
>> scroll backward with cmd-<left-arrow>  ... at least in the R64.app
>> and r.app GUI's.
>>
>> --
>> David Winsemius, MD
>> West Hartford, CT
>>
>>
>
> David Winsemius, MD
> West Hartford, CT
>
>
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