Re: [R-pkg-devel] use of `dev.new` across platforms in RStudio

2015-06-15 Thread Martin Maechler
> JJ Allaire > 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). >> >

Re: [R-pkg-devel] use of `dev.new` across platforms in RStudio (Martin Maechler)

2015-06-15 Thread JJ Allaire
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Alex Chubaty wrote: > JJ, do you have an estimated timeframe for when this fix will appear? > There's still the issue of RStudio users not updating their software at each > and every release, so it may time some time for `dev.new` to work for most > people. This i

Re: [R-pkg-devel] use of `dev.new` across platforms in RStudio (Martin Maechler)

2015-06-14 Thread Alex Chubaty
Thank you Martin for passing this along to RStudio, and thank you JJ for your reply. JJ, do you have an estimated timeframe for when this fix will appear? There's still the issue of RStudio users not updating their software at each and every release, so it may time some time for `dev.new` to work

Re: [R-pkg-devel] use of `dev.new` across platforms in RStudio (Martin Maechler)

2015-06-14 Thread JJ Allaire
> 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 rel

Re: [R-pkg-devel] use of `dev.new` across platforms in RStudio

2015-06-13 Thread Martin Maechler
> Alex Chubaty > on Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:41:56 -0700 writes: > Dear list members, > Use of platform-specific code to open new plot devices (e.g., `quartz`, > `x11`) is discouraged in favour of using `dev.new`; however, this does not > work in RStudio. A purported soluti

[R-pkg-devel] use of `dev.new` across platforms in RStudio

2015-06-12 Thread Alex Chubaty
Dear list members, Use of platform-specific code to open new plot devices (e.g., `quartz`, `x11`) is discouraged in favour of using `dev.new`; however, this does not work in RStudio. A purported solution introduced in R 3.1.1 was to call `dev.new(noRStudioGD = TRUE)`, which works on Windows, but n