[R] slow graphics download

2008-10-20 Thread Paul Murtaugh
Hi, I often work from home, running R on my office computer and displaying interactive graphics on my home computer using X11. This was always more sluggish than sitting at my office computer, obviously, but recently the graphics transfer has become painfully slow -- so slow, that I now

Re: [R] slow graphics download

2008-10-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
I suspect that you need to set the type= in X11(): see its help page. E.g. 'type = nbcairo' is the same device as 'type=cairo' without buffering: which is faster will depend on the X11 connection. Both will be slower than 'type = Xlib', especially on a slow X11 connection as