>>>>> Alex Chubaty <alex.chub...@gmail.com>
>>>>> 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 solution introduced in R 3.1.1 was to call
> `dev.new(noRStudioGD = TRUE)`, which works on Windows, but not OSX and
> Ubuntu. On these paltforms `dev.new` does not open a new plotting window,
> but instead a PDF device writing to file "Rplots.pdf".
Oh dear..
Of course this is a very good question from you as a package writer
> How can I open a new plot window in my package in a CRAN-approved way
I'm not involved in CRAN (but the R project!) but this is really
about tools in R's grDevices package to enable programmeRs to
write platform-portable code.
Exactly for that reason did we invent and implement dev.new()
even though I was not much envolved in that, I've applauded the
solution (for R 2.7.0, April 2008) quite a bit.
AFAIK this has become the de facto standard for opening a
graphics device -- "if possible interactive" -- explicitly and
portably.
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.
But yes, I don't have the background info about this and really
don't want to through any rocks...
==> rather a "friendly" CC to get Rstudio's staff attention to
this issue.
> that works reliably across platforms when using RStudio?
> Perhaps this is an issue to take up with RStudio and/or
> R-Devel directly, but I'd appreciate any insights or
> suggestions any of you may have.
See above. I hope this will be resolvable soon.
It's too bad that R 3.2.1 "RC" (release candidate) is basically
deep frozen already; OTOH, if there's very localized
Rstudio-specific patch which would solve the issue ..
> Thank you for your help,
> Alex
You're welcome,
Martin
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