That's a known problem with Windows: I think such widgets are not intended to be used in non-GUI applications. I've committed a workaround that seems to alleviate it.
On Sun, 13 May 2007, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > When calling > > select.list(letters[1:3]) > > in a fresh R session (R v2.4.1, v2.5.0, v2.6.0 devel) on WinXP using > *Rterm*, the dialog does *not* come up on front of other windows the > first time you call it. Under Rgui it works just fine. > > If you do: > > 1) select.list(letters[1:3]) > 2) bring the window to front manually > 3) select an option and press OK > 4) select.list(letters[1:3]) > > it the (second) dialog comes up in front of all other windows. > > /Henrik > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel