[R-SIG-Mac] R.app feature request

2009-12-05 Thread Soeren . Vogel
Dear R.app developers Would be a nice feature if one could change the default help browser to an external application, e.g. Safari or Firefox. Thanks Sören ___ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app feature request

2009-12-05 Thread David Winsemius
It's configured by your system's default:: options()$browser [1] /usr/bin/open You can over-ride this in your .Rprofile On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:00 PM, soeren.vo...@eawag.ch wrote: Dear R.app developers Would be a nice feature if one could change the default help browser to an external

[R-SIG-Mac] Cairo 'Out of memory' error

2009-12-05 Thread John Maindonald
I am using R from ESS, with X11 as the default graphics device. In due course, when I run a function that tries to open a new graphics window, I get the message: g10.6() Error in X11(d$display, d$width, d$height, d$pointsize, d$gamma, d$colortype, : unable to start device X11cairo In

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app feature request

2009-12-05 Thread soeren . vogel
On 05.12.2009, at 23:21, soeren.vo...@eawag.ch wrote: On 05.12.2009, at 23:14, David Winsemius wrote: It's configured by your system's default:: options()$browser [1] /usr/bin/open You can over-ride this in your .Rprofile On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:00 PM, soeren.vo...@eawag.ch wrote: Would be

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app feature request

2009-12-05 Thread Soeren . Vogel
On 05.12.2009, at 23:14, David Winsemius wrote: It's configured by your system's default:: options()$browser [1] /usr/bin/open You can over-ride this in your .Rprofile On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:00 PM, soeren.vo...@eawag.ch wrote: Would be a nice feature if one could change the default help

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app feature request

2009-12-05 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 05/12/2009 5:00 PM, soeren.vo...@eawag.ch wrote: Dear R.app developers Would be a nice feature if one could change the default help browser to an external application, e.g. Safari or Firefox. I'm not sure this is an improvement, but it's easy to do: 1. Create your own

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app feature request

2009-12-05 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:21 PM, soeren.vo...@eawag.ch wrote: On 05.12.2009, at 23:14, David Winsemius wrote: It's configured by your system's default:: options()$browser [1] /usr/bin/open You can over-ride this in your .Rprofile On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:00 PM, soeren.vo...@eawag.ch wrote: Would

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app feature request

2009-12-05 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 05/12/2009 5:00 PM, soeren.vo...@eawag.ch wrote: Dear R.app developers Would be a nice feature if one could change the default help browser to an external application, e.g. Safari or Firefox. I'm not sure this is an improvement, but

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app feature request

2009-12-05 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 5, 2009, at 18:48, David Winsemius dwinsem...@comcast.net wrote: On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 05/12/2009 5:00 PM, soeren.vo...@eawag.ch wrote: Dear R.app developers Would be a nice feature if one could change the default help browser to an external

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app feature request

2009-12-05 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 5, 2009, at 6:48 PM, David Winsemius wrote: On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 05/12/2009 5:00 PM, soeren.vo...@eawag.ch wrote: Dear R.app developers Would be a nice feature if one could change the default help browser to an external application, e.g. Safari or

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] OS 10.5.8 Compatibility

2009-12-05 Thread Simon Urbanek
Francis, On Dec 5, 2009, at 3:05 PM, Francis Smart wrote: Dear R people, I am running OS 10.5.8 on my PowerBook G4 and unfortunately it will not allow me to upgrade to Snow Leopard, because it does not run an Intel Chip. FWIW that makes no difference as we don't build anything specially

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Cairo 'Out of memory' error

2009-12-05 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 5, 2009, at 4:55 PM, John Maindonald wrote: I am using R from ESS, with X11 as the default graphics device. In due course, when I run a function that tries to open a new graphics window, I get the message: g10.6() Error in X11(d$display, d$width, d$height, d$pointsize, d$gamma,

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app feature request

2009-12-05 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:00 PM, soeren.vo...@eawag.ch wrote: Dear R.app developers Would be a nice feature if one could change the default help browser to an external application, e.g. Safari or Firefox. Good point. We're intentionally overriding the browser option in the R.app GUI because

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app feature request

2009-12-05 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Dec 5, 2009, at 6:59 PM, David Winsemius wrote: On Dec 5, 2009, at 6:48 PM, David Winsemius wrote: On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: On 05/12/2009 5:00 PM, soeren.vo...@eawag.ch wrote: Dear R.app developers Would be a nice feature if one could change the default

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Cairo 'Out of memory' error

2009-12-05 Thread John Maindonald
As this occurs only after some combination of computations and use of graphics commands, maybe extending over several days, it is not possible to provide a reproducible example. Once the session gets into this state, any attempt to open an X11 window triggers the output that I obtained. It

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] R.app feature request

2009-12-05 Thread David Winsemius
On Dec 5, 2009, at 7:13 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote: It would be to everyone's benefit if you would, please, report this properly - including how you got to the page with the link. Then I can actually look into that ... OK. Would it help to see what Mac OSX tihnks about the problem in the

[R-SIG-Mac] Help links in R Package Manager window inoperative

2009-12-05 Thread Berend Hasselman
1. Open a Package Manager window in the R.app GUI (menu Packages Data, Package Manager) 2. Click on any package listed in the top half of the window to get the documentation overview in the bottom half of the window. 3. Clicking on any item in the Help Pages list does not take you to the

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] OS 10.5.8 Compatibility

2009-12-05 Thread Francis Smart
Hi Simon, I am not sure if you saw the email that I responded to that David sent. In that response I used the link he sent me. In that response I used the versions listed on the link. And described exactly what I did that resulted in it freezing up. I hope this is clear. If it is not, I am