Dear Simon, On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:32:45 -0400 Simon Kiss <sjk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear John, > The Command Tab does not work for me, but I have been able to get expose to > work. I.e. it does bring up all windows, including the x11 terminal. It will > take a little getting used to, but it is functional.
I didn't understand that you're running R from an X11 terminal (if I now understand correctly and that's the case). If so, that's not necessary. You should be able to run the Rcmdr from R.app or R64.app, and X11, without a terminal window, will start automatically. Best, John > I apologize for cluttering the list with minutiae > Thank you! > Yours > S. > On 2011-07-28, at 5:21 PM, John Fox wrote: > > > Dear Simon, > > > > I'm sitting in front of a MacBook Pro and Command-tab works perfectly fine > > for me: Selecting X11 brings the R Commander Window to the front, and > > selecting R brings the Quartz graphics window to the front. I must admit > > that my habit in classroom demonstrations on a Mac is to use Expose to > > select Windows, but, unless I misunderstand your problem, Command-tab also > > works. > > > > I'm using R 2.13.1 under Mac OS X 10.6.7 with XQuartz 2.3.6 and > > tcltk-8.5.5-x11. > > > > I hope this helps, > > John > > > > ------------------------------------------------ > > John Fox > > Sen. William McMaster Prof. of Social Statistics > > Department of Sociology > > McMaster University > > Hamilton, Ontario, Canada > > http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ > > On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:40:11 -0400 > > Simon Kiss <sjk...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear Colleagues, > >> I have recently installed R Commander on my Mac OS 10.6.8. I'd like to use > >> it for an undergraduate class this year. > >> Everything appears to be working fine, except for one thing. I cannot use > >> Command-tab to cycle from the X11 window in which RCommander is running to > >> any other window open in my workspace. This is particularly important > >> because I cannot cycle to the graphics device window that is opened when I > >> call a new plot. If I force quit the X11 window and Rcommander, R remains > >> running and I can see the graphics device window and the plot looks fine. > >> But as you can imagine, this is quite laborious, having to restart. > >> I've looked through the help documentation and tried reinstalling tcltk > >> prior to opening up Rcommander, but that does not address the problem. > >> Any thoughts? > >> Yours, Simon Kiss > >> ********************************* > >> Simon J. Kiss, PhD > >> Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University > >> 73 George Street > >> Brantford, Ontario, Canada > >> N3T 2C9 > >> Cell: +1 905 746 7606 > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> 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. > > > > > > ********************************* > Simon J. Kiss, PhD > Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University > 73 George Street > Brantford, Ontario, Canada > N3T 2C9 > Cell: +1 905 746 7606 > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
