sizing of quartz

Thanks!

DinoDragon wrote:

Go to the R preference and select Quartz. You can set the window size
here.

Shame on me! Once I concentrate in the command line, I forgot the GUI
settings.

You didn't tell us the version of R.  quartz() is different in 2.7.0 
alpha, and there the function arguments do work (and the size is 
really as advertised and not at a notional 72dpi).  In fact, it is a 
much more standard device and interface, so less to learn.

Thanks! And sorry, I replied to the wrong list.

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

You didn't tell us the version of R.  quartz() is different in 2.7.0 alpha, 
and there the function arguments do work (and the size is really as 
advertised and not at a notional 72dpi).  In fact, it is a much more 
standard device and interface, so less to learn.

I assumed that > version provides most of the information required. Please, 
what information is lacking in my first post?

I've looked at installed.packages() and it seems to me that quartz() is 
"bundled" with the "main software" more than installed with a given package.

Is it possible to pass height and width in pixels more than in inches working 
with 2.7.0 alfa?

As I read in http://developer.R-project.org/, R-alpha*.tar.gz packages are 
made automatically available, but I guess there is not *.dmg for these 
stages.

Thanks for your help,

Ricardo

-- 
Ricardo Rodr?guez
Your XEN ICT Team

I've looked at installed.packages() and it seems to me that quartz() 
is "bundled" with the "main software" more than installed with a 
given package.

It is part of package grDevices in 2.7.0 alpha.

Is it possible to pass height and width in pixels more than in inches 
working with 2.7.0 alfa?

Yes, since the dpi can be set.  I'm not sure why you would want to do 
that, mind you.

As I read in http://developer.R-project.org/, R-alpha*.tar.gz packages 
are made automatically available, but I guess there is not *.dmg for 
these stages.

There are, thanks to Simon Urbanek at http://r.research.att.com/.  
(The main CRAN Mac OS X page says so.)  (You want the R-2-7-branch 
version: the 'tiger' dmg should run on Leopard according to the notes.)

(I've never tested these, as building from the sources is easy enough.)

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

I've looked at installed.packages() and it seems to me that quartz() is 
"bundled" with the "main software" more than installed with a given 
package.

It is part of package grDevices in 2.7.0 alpha.

Thanks. It must be also true for 2.6.2.

Is it possible to pass height and width in pixels more than in inches 
working with 2.7.0 alfa?

Yes, since the dpi can be set.  I'm not sure why you would want to do that, 
mind you.

To control appearance of graphics produced for the web.

We are trying to introduce R in our workflow. It is easy to figure out why. 
Currently, Excel, SPSS and several software flavors producing graphics and 
tables are involved. A kind of mess that nevertheless works. But I am sure R 
can substitute each and all  of these tools and to add a great deal of 
advantages. We keep discussions about papers we prepare in a wiki system. To 
produce neat graphics from R to be display in wiki pages is a must for me 
now.

As I read in http://developer.R-project.org/, R-alpha*.tar.gz packages are 
made automatically available, but I guess there is not *.dmg for these 
stages.

There are, thanks to Simon Urbanek at http://r.research.att.com/.  (The 
main CRAN Mac OS X page says so.)  (You want the R-2-7-branch version: the 
'tiger' dmg should run on Leopard according to the notes.)

(I've never tested these, as building from the sources is easy enough.)

To build my own binaries of several FOSS projects I working with is high in 
my ToDo list! But I will take profit of Simon's work to re-start with R now. 
Thanks to Simon.

Thanks for your help,

Ricardo

-- 
Ricardo Rodr?guez
Your XEN ICT Team

In that case you don't want a screen device.  There are new versions 
of png() and jpeg() as well as new bmp() and tiff() devices, and they 
all work in pixels and have options to use Quartz (although that is 
not necessarily preferable to the cairo options, depending on how the 
latter work out by release time).

There are a lot of new features in pre-2.7.0, and with it going into 
beta in a bit over a day now is a good time for MacOS users to start 
trying it out.