I guess that the default is to plot to a ps file rather than to a graphics window when using R from the terminal. hth, Ingmar
On 10 Apr 2008, at 12:02, Sophia Yancopoulos wrote: > Hi: > > Yesterday I downloaded R and got it up and running on my PC without a > hitch, not so when I tried to do the same on my Mac powerbook, using > Mac OSX: version 10.4.11.. I have virtually no experience, so I > can't tell what exactly went wrong. > > At first it appeared that the software loaded correctly, it seemed > like I was able to install R , and I even successfully unpacked > the package 'scatterplot3d' and was able to run some rudimentary > commands. > > However, I did not get a graphics window when I tried to follow the > same sequence of commands (following a tutorial) that worked on my > PC-- basically everything worked except for the actual plot command: > >> plot(x,y) > > I did this in the command mode in a terminal window, but no graphics > window came up. > > Can you please advise? THANKS IN ADVANCE! > > Sophia > > __________________________ > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. Ingmar Visser Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam Roetersstraat 15 1018 WB Amsterdam The Netherlands t: +31-20-5256723 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.
