>>>>> "RT" == Rolf Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> on Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:57:12 +1300 writes:
RT> On 7/11/2007, at 9:12 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> 1) Did you merge the resources or restart X? You need to >> in order to get new resources to be recognized. >> >> xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources would be needed to merge >> resources into the current X session. RT> No I didn't. Didn't know or didn't remember RT> about the merge business. Dang! That works. But only RT> for the auto-start device, not for x11(). Really? It should influence all instances of x11(), not only the "auto-start device" --- which, BTW, is identical to getOption("device") as has been mentioned here --- and it does so for me {on Linux}. BTW: For testing, you can use xrdb directly, i.e., in a shell: echo 'R_x11*geometry: 500x700-0-0' | xrdb -merge The above option looking useful for my typical use with ESS. Martin >> I don't know if MacOS X11 is standard enough to support >> this, but it is a very long-standing basic part of X11. >> >> 2) >> options(device=function() x11(xpos=-1)) plot(1:10) >> >> should work (does for me): it does not affect x11() in >> any way, just the auto-start graphics device. RT> Right. That works too. Missed the distinction RT> between x11() and the auto-start device. RT> Thanks very much. RT> cheers, RT> Rolf RT> ###################################################################### RT> Attention:\ This e-mail message is privileged and RT> confid...{{dropped:9}} RT> ______________________________________________ RT> R-help@r-project.org mailing list RT> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do RT> read the posting guide RT> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide RT> commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.