>>>>> JJ Allaire <j...@rstudio.com>
>>>>> on Sun, 14 Jun 2015 07:41:53 -0400 writes:
>> I have neither been involved in the creation of the
>> 'noRStudioGD' option, but from looking at dev.new() it is
>> clear that it *should* work on all three platforms
>> (Windows, Mac, Linuxen).
>>
>> It is really unfortunate that this still does not work
>> reliably (or stopped working with a new release of
>> "something" ?)...
>>
>> Honestely, I believe it is primarily RStudio's
>> responsibility to ensure that something standard R as
>> dev.new() keeps working in their interface to R,= and if
>> it does not, at least contact the R developers (R core)
>> about it.
> Currently the RStudio graphics device creation function
> fails if the RStudio device is already active. We will
> modify this function to rather than fail just delegate to
> the platform-appropriate device creation function (which
> will create an external windows, X11, or quartz graphics
> device window). This will make dev.new work as expected
> within RStudio.
> J.J. Allaire
Thanks a lot indeed, J.J. ... for such a quick and positive
reaction!
In a perfect world we would have communicated about and solved
the issue long ago..... and I'm sorry that you've not been
contacted about the issue earlier.
Best regards,
Martin
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