Re: [Rd] issues with dev.new avoiding RStudio plot device on unix?

2015-09-25 Thread Skye Bender-deMoll
Sorry, should have given more background. x11 works fine on all my systems when called by x11(). I'm the maintainer of a package that uses the animation library, which has performance issues when used with the RStudio plot device. But if you call plot.new() when using RStudio, you get an RSt

Re: [Rd] issues with dev.new avoiding RStudio plot device on unix?

2015-09-25 Thread Ott Toomet
Can you describe your problem a bit more? * What kind of unix system do you have? * Can you run other X11 programs? I had a similar issue, and the problem was that the computer was not set up to support X11. As a minimum, you have to install /xauth/, and potentially also other libraries if you w

[Rd] issues with dev.new avoiding RStudio plot device on unix?

2015-09-25 Thread Skye Bender-deMoll
Hi R-devl, I'm still unable to force opening an *interactive* non-Rstudio platform-specific plot device on *unix* systems. dev.new() add a new argument 'noRStudioGD' in R 3.1.1. Thank you. It works for me when using RStudio on Windows, but on the unix system it opens a pdf device instead of