Message-ID: <6AC73243-9203-11D8-AD35-000A95CD7F02@sheffield.ac.uk>
Date: 2004-04-19T15:13:45Z
From: Andrew Beckerman
Subject: .Rprofile and quartz
In-Reply-To: <BDF96AA4-91F6-11D8-9EF7-000A957CEFBA@math.uni-augsburg.de>
Thanks simon - works a treat adding library(graphics) for quartz and
library(lattice) for lset.
Cheers
andrew
On 19 Apr 2004, at 12:43, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
> On Apr 19, 2004, at 1:20 PM, Andrew Beckerman wrote:
>
>> A not of thanks to all involved with getting 1.9.0 out to OS X with
>> console.... Very flash and fast!
>>
>> My question may not be a mac thing: I had a very simple .Rprofile in
>> my home directory:
>>
>> cat("Welcome to R...." \n)
>> quartz("",8,8)
>> lset(col.whitebg())
>> cat(\n "Profile Loaded...." \n)
>>
>> However, with 1.9, it no longer works, saying that quartz cannot be
>> found. I have tried embedding these into a .First() function, as
>> shown is ?Startup, with no luck. Any ideas?
>
> Similar questions are being asked in R-devel/R-help almost daily :P.
> The startup files don't load any packages except for base - and this
> implies that you need to load such libraries explicitly. In your case
> you probably want to load the graphics library in order to get the
> quartz function (for reasons etc. see the list archives). This
> behavior is not new in 1.9, but the split of base in to individual
> packages is.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
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