Without reproduction instructions we have to guess at what you are doing. But I think the answer is in the help for options(), and more obvious from ?chooseCRANmirror (which seems to be one of the functions you are using).
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, jiho wrote: > Dear List, > > I noticed that, when executing R without X11 (e.g. on a remote machine > without X forwarding), when R needs to display a Tk dialog (e.g. when > presenting the list of mirrors for install.packages,or of available > packages containing help on a given keyword) it replaces it by a > simple numbered text list. I would love this behaviour to be the > default, even when I have X11, since I find it quicker and less > intrusive[1]. Is that possible? > man R, RSiteSearch and google were not helpful, it seems that > everybody is trying to get Tk to work rather than trying to suppress > it... > > Thanks in advance. > > [1] I am mainly using R in a simple terminal on OS X (X11 is usually > not running, so each TK dialog has to start the whole X server) or via > ssh to a remote machine (each Tk dialog has to start my local X server > and needs to be sent through the network, twice as painful). This may > give you the reason behind this seemingly strange question. > > JiHO > --- > http://jo.irisson.free.fr/ > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ 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.