Hello, On Mac OS X, certain Aqua/Quartz UI functionality requires an application to be launched from within an app bundle, or (alternatively) requires a Carbon application with a resource fork.
Playing with the wxWidgets distribution, I discovered that it is quite easy and transparent to make such a Carbon app from (I guess) any command line application. When applied to the R executable called from the command line (/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/exec/R), this indeed improves the behaviour of Quartz graphics windows, and of dialogs made with TclTk (Aqua version 8.4), which for me now behave like under X11. (i.e. as if controlled by a separate thread while the prompt remains usable.) I've created a small, standalone, shell script that does the necessary work, based on code and files from the wxWidgets distribution: mkApp /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/exec/R does the trick. The script can be downloaded from http://rjvbertin.free.fr/Programmes/mkApp.tar.gz Hope this helps (and isn't too old news...) R.B. ______________________________________________ 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.
