Brian, On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:21:40PM +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > What are stdin/stdout/stderr connected to when you do that? R --gui=GNOME > does write certain error messages (from GDK/GTK) to the controlling > terminal so you may need one, at least if there is an error/warning. > > I see gnome_start in src/modules/gnome/system.c has > > R_Interactive = isatty(0); > > I would think that was blind copying. Please see if setting it to 1 > helps.
Excellent suggestion, I'll try that this eve. Thanks as always, Dirk > > > On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > > > A Debian user filed a bug report the details of which are at > > http://bugs.debian.org/269107 > > > > I can replicate his problem: the R/Gnome entry that is made available to the > > various window managers fails. A window pops, and exists. > > > > As far as I can tell, the menuing system does not have a problem with shell > > script wrapper. Environment variables like PATH, DISPLAY etc should be set > > too. So the best idea I am having now is that R _may_ think that > > interactive() is FALSE when it should in fact be TRUE. > > > > Does anybody have a) other ideas, and fixes, or b) an idea how I could > > correct the menuing system? > > > > Dirk > > > > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > > -- Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. -- Groucho Marx ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
