I have difficulties with the R-GUI or the R Quartz Window,

At one time it was easy to copy to the clipboard and then paste into
another document, e.g. Microsoft Word or GraphicConverter or ...
No more.  There is a "Copy" item available (in dark letters, not greyed)
in the Edit menu, but nothing goes into clipboard. I can verify this  
with
several applications that have a "Show Clipboard" menu item.
This was great for recording results of exploratory sessions without
a generating a large number of files.

I am running R 2.7.2 GUI 1.25 (5217)
and have the same problem on both a 10.4.11 and a 10.5.5 Mac.
(I have not gotten 5218 to work yet, at least by opening the download
directly from the download-disk-image.)

This functionality appears to be implied by the FAQ regarding the GUI
and Quartz.  In a previous version, the contents of the Quartz window
would disappear (blank window) but the clipboard would contain the
appropriate clipping.  I can save the window and that is a pdf file.

(Secondarily:
Items saved by quartz.save do not seem to open correctly in Preview
or Acrobat.  I assume that one must close the Quartz device with
dev.off()  Maybe I just need an example of quartz.save in action.)

Dr. Robert Chatfield
Earth Sciences, MS 245-5
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA 94035    USA

Ph: 650-604-5490  FAX 650-604-3625

http://geo.arc.nasa.gov/sgg/chatfield





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