Most of my animations that used to work on windows() version 2.11.1 and earlier now flash as if the double buffering is turned off or buffer swapping is triggered by other events than in the past.
The simplified example below using symbols should illustrate the problem in a windows environment. windows() radius <- 8 n <- 6 ang <- seq(0,2*pi,length=n+1)[-(n+1)] ca <- cos(ang) sa <- sin(ang) size <- c(.1, .3, .5, .7, .9, 1) colors <- rainbow(length(size)) for (i in 1:1000){ radius <- radius*.998 bnd <- (radius+1)* c(-1, 1) cenX <- radius*ca cenY <- radius*sa symbols(cenX, cenY, circles = size, xlim=bnd, ylim=bnd, bg=colors) } I have not isolated the version when the flashing started but it somewhere between 2.11.1 and 2.14.1. I did some searching on double-buffering problems in R but didn't find indications of this particular problem. Slowing the animation down did not help. Dan ______________________________________________ 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.