thank you again. I have a request for Simon.
On the windows machines, the R and Windows FAQ are both in c:/Program Files/R/R-2.15.1/doc Hence I looked for the Mac FAQ in the same place as the R FAQ on Mac. On windows, searchpaths() gives a list of items like "c:/Program Files/R/R-2.15.1/library/base" which gives a starting directory in which to look. On the Mac, search paths() gives "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library/base" which in this case was not helpful for finding the Mac FAQ. Can you set up a symbolic link from /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.15/Resources/doc to point to /Applications/R.app/Contents/Resources? That will make it easier for the next person converting from windows to mac. Thanks Rich On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 11:59 AM, David Winsemius <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Jul 5, 2012, at 10:58 AM, Richard M. Heiberger wrote: > > It is interesting to compare working styles. I am not "up to" anything. > I am trying > to recreate in Mac the standard working style I use in R on windows and > also in S-Plus on windows. I just keep the complete graph history until it > complains about lack of memory. > In S-Plus, it is possible to delete individual plots. In R on windows I > haven't found an easy > way to do that, so I just delete the R object containing the entire > history. When I adjust > arguments to xyplot or plot it is very helpful to be able to back up and > see what the previous > incarnation of the graph looked like. > > Where is "R MacOSX FAQ"? I don't see it on my computer > inside /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/ > I am using R-2.15.1 from CRAN. > > > I use the Help menu in the GUI when I want to look at it. It will also be > the first google hit on search using " r mac faq". > > A bit of messing around with links in the displayed copy shows that I am > looking at: > > file:///Applications/R64.app/Contents/Resources/RMacOSX-FAQ.html > > > > What is GEcreateSnapshot? I tried ?, emacs apropos, and man with no > success. > > Where is the display list kept on the mac? ls(all=TRUE) isn't showing it. > On windows, it is > > ls(all=TRUE) > [1] ".SavedPlots" > > When I do find the display list on the mac, how can I index into it > farther back than 16? > > What I would like are two features that I have become accustomed to. > From either R on windows or S-Plus, click graphs forward or backward in > sequence as far back as memory supports. > From S-Plus on windows, click on a tab to get to a specific graph, or > click on a tab and delete > a specific graph. > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Simon Urbanek < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Jul 5, 2012, at 9:42 AM, David Winsemius wrote: >> >> > >> > On Jul 4, 2012, at 11:47 PM, Richard M. Heiberger wrote: >> > >> >> David, >> >> >> >> thank you. it works. >> >> >> >> Where is it documented? >> > >> > The first place I find written documentation of the cmd-arrow >> > functions is in the R MacOSX FAQ: >> > 12.8 Why are Quartz plots much bigger than they used to be? >> > (Second paragraph) >> > >> > (I may have read about the stack depth in one of the postings from >> > Simon in this venue. The figure of ten is a rough guess. The true >> > value is somewhere in the range of 8 to 15.) >> > >> >> I want to set the depth to something much larger than 10. >> > >> > I have not found a place for users to change this. May be that a >> > compile time change is needed. (Simon will hopefully correct me if >> > this is wrong.) >> > >> >> R-devel/src/library/grDevices/src/qdCocoa.m@37: >> >> #define histsize 16 >> >> so, yes, it is hard-coded in R. >> >> It is not part of the R.app GUI but actually of the Quartz device in R >> itself so it is not configurable. >> >> It simply saves display lists and replays them as you go back - you can >> do that with any device that has display lists enabled (see dev.control). >> I'm not sure what Rich is up to but you can always save and restore plots >> with GEcreateSnapshot and GEplayDisplayList regardless of the device and >> the display list is just an R object. Keeping more than 16 plots seems a >> little tedious to go through ... >> >> Cheers, >> Simon >> >> >> >> > I tried searching MarkMail's archive with a couple of strategies, ... >> > the last unsuccessful one was: >> > >> > >> http://markmail.org/search/?q=simon+urbanek+list%3Aorg.r-project.r-sig-mac+graphics+increase#query >> > :simon%20urbanek%20list%3Aorg.r-project.r-sig-mac%20graphics%20increase >> > +page:2+mid:ykmzj6mwesj3wywu+state:results >> > >> > (I don't know if that will be paste-worthy or click-worthy.) >> > >> > >> >> I don't see anything about the stack on the ?quartz page >> >> and there appears not to be any control option on the quartz menu >> >> item on the device >> >> itself. >> > >> > If the Quartz window is the focus, the Quartz menu options will become >> > active and even if not the focus the menu will also tell you the >> > keyboard equivalents (standard Mac behavior). I think that is where I >> > learned it. >> > >> > >> >> >> >> Rich >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:35 PM, David Winsemius < >> [email protected] >> >>> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Jul 4, 2012, at 11:12 PM, Richard M. Heiberger wrote: >> >> >> >> The windows feature I miss most on the Mac is a graphics device that >> >> remembers the previous graphs, >> >> specifically >> >> windows.options(record=TRUE) ## R for Windows >> >> >> >> Is there a similar feature available on the macintosh? >> >> >> >> There is a graphics stack, whose default depth is 10, and you can >> >> scroll backward with cmd-<left-arrow> ... at least in the R64.app >> >> and r.app GUI's. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> David Winsemius, MD >> >> West Hartford, CT >> >> >> >> >> > >> > David Winsemius, MD >> > West Hartford, CT >> > >> > >> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> > >> > >> >> > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
