Hi Dirk, Thanks for your useful advice, although I am not sure I fully understand your response.
I am able to open x11 windows from R CMD BATCH both in windows XP,MAC OS X and Linux (on various machines I use), providing the relevant Sys.setenv() commands are in the script I call prior to plotting commands. My problem is that the X11 windows only persist as long as the script is running, and disappear when R exits - which is very rapid for most plots (it is only when the script imports a shapefile using maptools or something like that that the window is open long enough to really examine the plot). Is there a way when running R (from batch mode or otherwise) of 'saving' X11 windows, and keeping them open after the R session is complete? I don't really want to write the graphics to file, because the repeated calls from the Fortran code would overwrite each other, and the idea is to do rapid appraisal of the simulated annealing schedule, to check that mixing/cooling are progressing in an efficient and useful manner. Would using cairo (which I can't seem to get to work at the moment) allow me to do this? I'm not sure it's an x11 problem, but rather something to do with the way that R and X11 communicate? Many thanks Luke Spadavecchia ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
