fluxbox, ess and redrawing r windows

Hi all,

tyler ha scritto:
Johannes Ranke writes:
 > 
 > what about setting
 > 
 > R> par(mfcol=c(2,2))
 > 
That would reduce the number of windows, so there'd be less juggling,
but the problem is still there - even if I have four plots in one
window, if I can't get that window to show up when I want it, I still
have a problem. And it wouldn't help at all with lattice plots.
A couple of hints:

If you need comparing different plots viewing them in side-to-side 
windows, you can save them as .eps with a command like
R> dev2eps()
after each redraw of the window, and handle them with an external viewer.

If you need to view plots during your R elaboration but one after the 
other, you can make R wait for user signal (arrow, Enter...) to refresh 
the window just like some demos do, for example demo(graphics).

hope this helps, and good work with R and fluxbox!

 > And by the way, you could also use vim with R ;-)
That'd be like serving caviar on a piece of mouldy bread! I did check,
though, running R from the command line. The same issue comes up, so
the problem is not coming from Emacs.

Cheers,

Tyler
cheers,

Anne who uses R with Kate ;)

 > 
 > Just my 2c,
 > 
 > Hannes
 > 
 > 
 > * tyler <tyler.smith at mail.mcgill.ca> [090129 18:50]:
 > > Hi,
 > > 
 > > I'm running Lenny with Fluxbox, interacting with R via Emacs + ESS. An
 > > ongoing aggravation with this setup is trying to get R graphics windows
 > > redrawn. 
 > > 
 > > For example, I may have 8 or 10 R graphics windows open, and I switch
 > > between them using Alt-tab. The problem is, sometimes the windows remain
 > > blank. Sometimes I can get the display back by moving the window with
 > > the mouse, or switching focus away from the window, then returning to
 > > it. Other times, they just stubbornly refuse to show me their contents.
 > > The problem is compounded when I want to compare three or four plots at
 > > the same time - getting all four windows to show their contents at the
 > > same time is incredibly frustrating.
 > > 
 > > Has anyone else experienced this? Anybody have any ideas how to fix
 > > this?
 > > 
 > > Thanks,
 > > 
 > > Tyler
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fluxbox, ess and redrawing r windows

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