Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Philipp Fechteler wrote: > >> Hello Mr Ripley >> >> Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >>> So you have to write a script that will not terminate until you >>> 'press a button or something like this'. That's easy to do, but as >>> you haven't told us your OS. E.g. on Windows, call winDialogString >>> at the end. >>> >> >> Thank you for helping. I am running on Linux. But I think the >> getchar() like call should be inside the R script. So is there >> something like this in R or any loadable module, e.g. a function >> sleeping until a key is pressed and returning the key code? > > See ?readline, and from Rscript scan("stdin", "", n=1). >
The scan() function is quite near on my desired solution. But it inhabits the following problem. The rgl window pops up showing the data I want to see, but its frozen (due to the following scan() call). So I successfully see the data visualization as long as I want, but its a static view, the mouse-interactivity is lost (changing the viewing angle, zoom etc.). > > You can't do this totally portably: R might not be connected to a > terminal (even in interactive use: think ESS). You could also use a Tk > widget to give your users a button to press. > Is there anywere a short tutorial, how to mix R scripts with Tk? But the best would be to change the upper approach, so that the rgl window just keeps its interactivity. Thank you. Philipp >> >> >> Greetings >> Philipp >> >> >>> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Philipp Fechteler wrote: >>> >>>> Hello R friends >>>> >>>> I am quite impressed by the power of R, I am using it only since some >>>> weeks now. But its visualizing capabilities are outstanding! >>>> >>>> But one thing I couldn't solve: I have programs producing lots of data, >>>> most times 3D. In R I am using the library rgl to visualize nicely the >>>> 3D data. >>>> >>>> What I would like to do is to write R scipts which read in a data file >>>> and show me the 3D rgl plot. So that on the command line I just call my >>>> newly written R script, which pops up the rgl window. This session >>>> should run until I close the rgl window or press a button or something >>>> like this. >>>> >>>> Currently, I can write R scripts >>>> - using Rscript or >>>> - http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/05/0500.html >>>> But both approaches contain the problem that the rgl window pops up for >>>> just a moment, and then the program terminates. >>>> >>>> >>>> Does any body has an idea, what to do? Help would be very appreciated. >>>> >>>> Thank's a lot and ... Marry Christmas + Happy New Year >>>> >>>> Philipp >>>> >>>> >>>> ________________________________________________________________________ >>>> >>>> Dipl.-Ing. Philipp Fechteler >>>> Department Image Processing >>>> Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications >>>> Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) >>>> Einsteinufer 37 >>>> 10587 Berlin, Germany >>>> Phone +49 30 31002 616 >>>> Fax +49 30 392 72 00 >>>> Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> WWW http://iphome.hhi.de/fechteler >>>> ________________________________________________________________________ >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > -- ________________________________________________________________________ Dipl.-Ing. Philipp Fechteler Department Image Processing Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) Einsteinufer 37 10587 Berlin, Germany Phone +49 30 31002 616 Fax +49 30 392 72 00 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW http://iphome.hhi.de/fechteler ________________________________________________________________________ ---- Visit us at FOE 2008 (8th Fiber Optics Expo) / Tokio Big Sight, Japan / 16 - 18 January 2008 / Booth 2 - 50 http://www.foe.jp/english ______________________________________________ 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.