use of file.show() under linux session....
On Sunday 28 November 2004 13:42, BUHARD Olivier wrote:
Hi all, I know this is a stupid question, but I can't display a text file in a separate console window under a R session in X11 (gnome with MDK 9.2). I use R 2.0.0. When I enter :
file.show("/path/to/my/file/filename.txt" ,pager="gnome-terminal")
the new window opens and then I just obtain the blinking cursor after the console prompt :-( I always obtain the same result, wathever the pager used (konsole, gnome-terminal...)
Why are you expecting it to do anything else? Does $ gnome-terminal /path/to/my/file/filename.txt display your file? gnome-terminal / konsole are not pagers.
When I open the file in the current window, it is displayed as any normal text file, so I don't understand.
What do you mean by 'open'?
Well, it's trivial, but it could help me if I could see the file while working in another window with the R session... of course, I could use another soft (Gedit, or open a new console manually...) : well, I find it more convinient without many different programs running in the session.
On my system at least, if there's an already running gedit,
file.show("myfile", pager = "gedit")
opens the file in a new tab (note, not a new program or even a new window) in gedit, and returns immediately to the R prompt, where you can do other stuff while the file is being displayed. Deepayan