Matthew,

Thanks, I have at times run R from Emacs on Windows, but not convinced I
will do this on the Mac, but worth knowing.

Graham

On 14/08/07, Matthew Keller <mckellercran@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I would just add that if you run R from within Emacs on a mac
> (Aquamacs or Carbon or one of the others), it's handy to have X11
> installed & started in order to have graphics windows. There are
> several threads on the r-sig-mac that go over how to get this
> working...
>
> Matt
>
>
>
> On 8/14/07, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek@r-project.org> wrote:
> > Graham,
> >
> > X11 is a window system used for applications that come from the unix
> > world and have not been ported to Mac OS X window system (Aqua) yet.
> > There is a handful of packages in R that require it (e.g. tcltk,
> > RGtk2 and friends), as well as some R bitmap output routines (png,
> > jpeg..) and the X11 R device (unsurprisingly). You don't have to use
> > any of those (there are better options e.g. for the bitmap output),
> > but if you do, you have to start X11.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Simon
> >
> >
> > On Aug 14, 2007, at 7:15 AM, Graham Smith wrote:
> >
> > > I am brand new to the Mac, and wondered what exactly X11, does.
> > >
> > > The faq says it is optional, but equally, it seems important enough
> > > for it
> > > to have an icon in the r-Console.
> > >
> > > Having been using R in Windows, X11 is a completely new concept to
> > > me and
> > > wondered if someone could explain its purpose.
> > >
> > > I understand roughly what it is from googling, but can't make the
> > > link with
> > > it purpose in R on the Mac.
> > >
> > > Many thanks,
> > >
> > > Graham
> > >
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