On 2008-February-05 , at 16:13 , Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Without reproduction instructions we have to guess at what you are > doing.
Sorry to not have included some. I did not think it was relevant since this was not directly a coding issue. I'll be more thorough in the future. > But I think the answer is in the help for options(), and more > obvious from ?chooseCRANmirror (which seems to be one of the > functions you are using). Indeed, the option to set is menu.graphics=FALSE Thank you very much! > On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, jiho wrote: > >> Dear List, >> >> I noticed that, when executing R without X11 (e.g. on a remote >> machine >> without X forwarding), when R needs to display a Tk dialog (e.g. when >> presenting the list of mirrors for install.packages,or of available >> packages containing help on a given keyword) it replaces it by a >> simple numbered text list. I would love this behaviour to be the >> default, even when I have X11, since I find it quicker and less >> intrusive[1]. Is that possible? >> man R, RSiteSearch and google were not helpful, it seems that >> everybody is trying to get Tk to work rather than trying to suppress >> it... >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> [1] I am mainly using R in a simple terminal on OS X (X11 is usually >> not running, so each TK dialog has to start the whole X server) or >> via >> ssh to a remote machine (each Tk dialog has to start my local X >> server >> and needs to be sent through the network, twice as painful). This may >> give you the reason behind this seemingly strange question. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/ ______________________________________________ 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.
