From tlumley at u.washington.edu  Wed Aug 13 08:24:48 2003
From: tlumley at u.washington.edu (Thomas Lumley)
Date: Wed Aug 13 16:24:30 2003
Subject: [Rd] RAqua
In-Reply-To: <46EF452E-CD73-11D7-B052-003065CC4CB8@mclink.it>
Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.44.0308130718480.158690-100000@homer06.u.washington.edu>

On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Stefano Iacus wrote:

> > 4. Input and output windows cannot be resized independently. I
> > would still vote for two separate input and output windows.

And I'd vote for a single combined window :)

>
> > 6. If you want to download from CRAN you select packages in
> > a window, and the download starts if you close the window.
> it starts only if you check the item "install", otherwise the R session
> continues giving you a prompt.
> > That's not intuitive, there should be a separate download or go
> > button.

I don't find it intuitive, either, but isn't it fairly standard under
Aqua/OSX that dialogs are `live' and changes happen without a separate
confirmation button (eg in System Preferences)?


> > 7. I thought I saw somewhere that RAqua can now open X11
> > devices. Mine can't.
> you should start QuartzX and use x11(display=":0")

You don't even need x11(display=":0"), but you do need to start an X
server.  RAqua doesn't start an X server and I don't think it should.

X display windows are still not resizable, which is a similar
event-handling issue to the Tk one.

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley@u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle


[Rd] RAqua
Thomas Lumley