On Jul 5, 2012, at 10:58 AM, Richard M. Heiberger wrote: > It is interesting to compare working styles. I am not "up to" > anything. I am trying > to recreate in Mac the standard working style I use in R on windows > and also in S-Plus on windows. I just keep the complete graph > history until it complains about lack of memory. > In S-Plus, it is possible to delete individual plots. In R on > windows I haven't found an easy > way to do that, so I just delete the R object containing the entire > history. When I adjust > arguments to xyplot or plot it is very helpful to be able to back up > and see what the previous > incarnation of the graph looked like. > > Where is "R MacOSX FAQ"? I don't see it on my computer inside / > Library/Frameworks/R.framework/ > I am using R-2.15.1 from CRAN.
I use the Help menu in the GUI when I want to look at it. It will also be the first google hit on search using " r mac faq". A bit of messing around with links in the displayed copy shows that I am looking at: file:///Applications/R64.app/Contents/Resources/RMacOSX-FAQ.html > > What is GEcreateSnapshot? I tried ?, emacs apropos, and man with no > success. > > Where is the display list kept on the mac? ls(all=TRUE) isn't > showing it. > On windows, it is > > ls(all=TRUE) > [1] ".SavedPlots" > > When I do find the display list on the mac, how can I index into it > farther back than 16? > > What I would like are two features that I have become accustomed to. > From either R on windows or S-Plus, click graphs forward or backward > in sequence as far back as memory supports. > From S-Plus on windows, click on a tab to get to a specific graph, > or click on a tab and delete > a specific graph. > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Simon Urbanek <[email protected] > > wrote: > > On Jul 5, 2012, at 9:42 AM, David Winsemius wrote: > > > > > On Jul 4, 2012, at 11:47 PM, Richard M. Heiberger wrote: > > > >> David, > >> > >> thank you. it works. > >> > >> Where is it documented? > > > > The first place I find written documentation of the cmd-arrow > > functions is in the R MacOSX FAQ: > > 12.8 Why are Quartz plots much bigger than they used to be? > > (Second paragraph) > > > > (I may have read about the stack depth in one of the postings from > > Simon in this venue. The figure of ten is a rough guess. The true > > value is somewhere in the range of 8 to 15.) > > > >> I want to set the depth to something much larger than 10. > > > > I have not found a place for users to change this. May be that a > > compile time change is needed. (Simon will hopefully correct me if > > this is wrong.) > > > > R-devel/src/library/grDevices/src/qdCocoa.m@37: > > #define histsize 16 > > so, yes, it is hard-coded in R. > > It is not part of the R.app GUI but actually of the Quartz device in > R itself so it is not configurable. > > It simply saves display lists and replays them as you go back - you > can do that with any device that has display lists enabled (see > dev.control). I'm not sure what Rich is up to but you can always > save and restore plots with GEcreateSnapshot and GEplayDisplayList > regardless of the device and the display list is just an R object. > Keeping more than 16 plots seems a little tedious to go through ... > > Cheers, > Simon > > > > > I tried searching MarkMail's archive with a couple of > strategies, ... > > the last unsuccessful one was: > > > > http://markmail.org/search/?q=simon+urbanek+list%3Aorg.r-project.r-sig-mac+graphics+increase#query > > :simon%20urbanek%20list%3Aorg.r-project.r-sig-mac%20graphics > %20increase > > +page:2+mid:ykmzj6mwesj3wywu+state:results > > > > (I don't know if that will be paste-worthy or click-worthy.) > > > > > >> I don't see anything about the stack on the ?quartz page > >> and there appears not to be any control option on the quartz menu > >> item on the device > >> itself. > > > > If the Quartz window is the focus, the Quartz menu options will > become > > active and even if not the focus the menu will also tell you the > > keyboard equivalents (standard Mac behavior). I think that is > where I > > learned it. > > > > > >> > >> Rich > >> > >> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:35 PM, David Winsemius <[email protected] > >>> wrote: > >> > >> On Jul 4, 2012, at 11:12 PM, Richard M. Heiberger wrote: > >> > >> The windows feature I miss most on the Mac is a graphics device > that > >> remembers the previous graphs, > >> specifically > >> windows.options(record=TRUE) ## R for Windows > >> > >> Is there a similar feature available on the macintosh? > >> > >> There is a graphics stack, whose default depth is 10, and you can > >> scroll backward with cmd-<left-arrow> ... at least in the R64.app > >> and r.app GUI's. > >> > >> -- > >> David Winsemius, MD > >> West Hartford, CT > >> > >> > > > > David Winsemius, MD > > West Hartford, CT > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > > > > > David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
