Ahh, I should have known about the MDI and SDI options - choosing SDI lets me do what I want. Thanks. On #2, I realized that when the change directory dialog window pops up, if I resize it, R remembers the resizing so that now the entire window is visible. I should have tried that before I posted. No luck though on getting the "change directory" dialog box to begin at the current working directory the same manner as 'save' or 'open' dialog boxes. I'll update to the new R version
Thanks, Glenn Stauffer -----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 1:52 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] positioning of R windows On 27/02/2013 22:33, Glenn Stauffer wrote: > I have 2 (related, I think) questions about positioning of windows within R. > > 1. I often work with a second monitor and sometimes like to arrange 1 > or more plot windows on the second monitor, while keeping the console > on the primary monitor (so I can see things better). I used to be able > to do this (when using Windows XP), but it seems that now (using > Windows 7) I can't even move the plot window outside of the parent R > window. Is this a Windows > 7 issue, or something I can fix with R preferences? Run RGui with --sdi I don't believe it was ever intentionally possible to move MDI windows outside the frame. > 2. When I use the file menu to change directories I noticed 2 > differences from Win XP to Win 7. In Win 7, 1) the bottom of the > pop-up window is off the bottom of my computer, and 2) the directory > tree defaults to something close to the root, regardless of the current working directory. > In Win XP, the directory tree defaulted to the current working > directory, which made it easy to jump up one folder, etc. Is there any > way to make this the default behavior? Ask Microsoft not to change the behaviour of their common controls API. > I am using R 2.15.1 Which is not current: R 2.15.3 will be released tomorrow. And you are comparing an old OS (Win7) with a very old one (XP): R for Windows was adapted for Win7 and before that, Vista, several years ago. > > > > Thanks, > > Glenn Stauffer > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk 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 ______________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________ 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.