[R-pkg-devel] Closing a display window from a program

2024-11-19 Thread J C Nash
In answer to my own posting about this, I found the following partially answers what I need. The task is to display a file (in my case a pdf, for which 'xdisp' contains the string for the command to do this. See below for the reason this is a variable. The displayed file has information I will ne

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Closing a display window from a program

2024-11-19 Thread Serguei Sokol
Le 19/11/2024 à 14:41, J C Nash a écrit : In answer to my own posting about this, I found the following partially answers what I need. The task is to display a file (in my case a pdf, for which 'xdisp' contains the string for the command to do this. See below for the reason this is a variable. T

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Closing a display window from a program

2024-11-14 Thread Simon Urbanek
John, does it have to be PDF? Unfortunately, PDF is not easy to deal with in platform-independent way (and generally as well - of all the systems only macOS has native support for it). If you really have no other choice, my only suggestion would be to use poppler to render it so it can be displ

[R-pkg-devel] Closing a display window from a program

2024-11-13 Thread J C Nash
Hi, I'm trying to prepare a package to manage some diverse data. It is extremely convenient to display a PDF derived from the data so the user can verify information that the R script is going to process (even nicer if on a 2 monitor system). I've 2 issues: 1) I can display the pdf either with f