Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Permanently fix R to open Help page in html

2017-07-10 Thread Christofer Bogaso
Performed steps according to Marc's suggestions : But not help page is not openning in Browser. On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 7:28 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote: > >> On Jul 10, 2017, at 5:19 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >> >> On 10/07/2017 5:02 PM, Christofer

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Permanently fix R to open Help page in html

2017-07-10 Thread Marc Schwartz
> On Jul 10, 2017, at 5:19 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > > On 10/07/2017 5:02 PM, Christofer Bogaso wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I wanted R to open any Help page in html permanently. >> >> So 1st I created .Rprofile file with below code in terminal: >> >> touch ~/.Rprofile >>

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Permanently fix R to open Help page in html

2017-07-10 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 10/07/2017 5:02 PM, Christofer Bogaso wrote: Hi, I wanted R to open any Help page in html permanently. So 1st I created .Rprofile file with below code in terminal: touch ~/.Rprofile open -a Textedit ~/.Rprofile And then in the .Rprofile file, I wrote below code : options(help_type =

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Poor plotting performance on Mac OS X

2017-07-10 Thread peter dalgaard
Thanks Don, Can you perhaps make that a little closer to being reproducible for people who might want to try it on newer hardware? (packages, location of input file). (And by the way, xterm? What did Terminal.app do to you?) This, along with a thread from 2014 that Google dug up, strongly

[R-SIG-Mac] Permanently fix R to open Help page in html

2017-07-10 Thread Christofer Bogaso
Hi, I wanted R to open any Help page in html permanently. So 1st I created .Rprofile file with below code in terminal: touch ~/.Rprofile open -a Textedit ~/.Rprofile And then in the .Rprofile file, I wrote below code : options(help_type = ‘html’) However after that when I start R (from

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Poor plotting performance on Mac OS X

2017-07-10 Thread MacQueen, Don
For what it's worth, here is my experience on a late 2013 Mac Pro. (I normally run R from an xterm shell within an X Windows context) The best performance for displaying the image on-screen uses cairographics and Polypath. It's the only one fast enough to be satisfactory for interactive use, in

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Poor plotting performance on Mac OS X

2017-07-10 Thread Ashley Betts
Hi Peter, outputting to PDF made a huge difference! It ran for only 15 seconds and there was no trailing unresponsive prompt. The PDF ended up being around 2Mb and opened and displayed almost immediately in Preview. I did watch the system when I was outputting to the quartz device last time and

Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Poor plotting performance on Mac OS X

2017-07-10 Thread peter dalgaard
Pretty clear that the process is getting stuck in Apple-graphics land, then. This could be inefficiency of the device driver, but also just ... Apple. Could you try running the same thing to a PDF (AFAIR, just open the device with pdf(file="myplot.pdf"), then print(plt), then dev.off()). It