opening graphics devices using ESS under Windows NT

A.J. Rossini rossini at blindglobe.net
Mon May 20 16:28:07 CEST 2002


This is indeed the case.  There are two S-PLus for windows interfaces
available, read the help files in /doc; one allows for graphics, and
the other doesn't.  Unfortunately, the "natural"[1] one is the one that
doesn't allow for graphics.

best,
-tony


>>>>> "robert" == Robert M Dorazio <Robert> writes:

    robert> I just installed XEmacs 21.4.6 and ESS 5.1.21 on a workstation that
    robert> contains Windows NT 4.0 and Splus 6.  ESS seems to work fine except during
    robert> plotting.  For example,

    robert> plot(1:10) yields NOTHING!

    robert> and

    robert> graphsheet() yields:

    >> graphsheet()
    robert> Problem in .C("S_axum_device",: Can only be run from S-PLUS graphical
    robert> client., while calling subroutine S_axum_device
    robert> Use traceback() to see the call stack
    robert> Problem in .C("S_axum_device",: Can only be run from S-PLUS graphical
    robert> client., while calling subroutine S_axum_device
    robert> Use traceback() to see the call stack

    robert> Error during wrapup: Cannot shut down device 1 (the null device)
    >> 

    robert> Can someone indicate how to open a graphics device in ESS using a Windows
    robert> NT operating system?

    robert> Incidentally, I don't experience any of these problems on my Sun
    robert> Workstation, where plot() automatically opens a Motif graphics device in
    robert> another window.



Footnotes: 
[1]  by natural, I mean natural in the Splus for Unix way.


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