[ESS] Macintosh followup advice and question

[Paul Johnson]

One follow up inside here

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Vincent Goulet <vincent.goulet using me.com>
wrote:

> > 1. It is VITAL to go into the Mac's Mission Control and change the
> shortcut
> > keys.  THey are currently using Control-up arrow and Control-down arrow
> as
> > window manager things, and if you don't free up those shortcuts, your
> like
> > in the R console is empty, without any joy whatsoever.
>
> I'm with Richard, here. I've been using M-p and M-n for years to travel
> the command history.
>
> What I do need to tell my students who use a (Canadian) French keyboard is
> to rebind the Meta key from Option/Alt to Command. This is because the
> Option key on (some?) non-English keyboards is used to access characters
> such as {, }, [ and ].
>
> > 2. Also we need to say "XQuartz" is a mandatory install, there's no point
> > having R without it.
>
> With Stephen for this one. Granted, I'm not the most graphics heavy user,
> but I've only ever had to use XQuartz to display rgl graphics.
>
> If we don't have XQuartz installed, we don't even see the output that uses
tcltk, such as the repo chooser in install.packages.  I'm not an Rcmdr
enthusiast, but some textbooks eagerly encourage the students to use it.

You mean you can get things like that to work without it?

I got the idea it was required from the R for Mac FAQ

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html#Tcl_002fTk-issues



> Now, my question.
> >
> > 3. In Emacs Mac, How do you save the output from *R* as a text file?  I
> > told the users to just save the *R* window with File->save as and give
> the
> > file the same name as the R file and a suffix "Rout".  User came in
> showing
> > that when he saves the transcript, Emacs only saves a backup file, it
> never
> > gets promoted to a real file. I mean, it is always marked #.  WHen emacs
> > closes down, it says do you want to save the files, but in the end the
> > result is always #backup.Rout#
>
> No problem of this sort here either using C-x C-w directly or from the
> menu.
>
> >
> > I realize now the workflow I use is proabably wrong.  I should have told
> > him to close the R session, then try to save the *R* windows with a file
> > name whatever.Rout. Is that what you would do?
> >
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Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science      Assoc. Director
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504      Center for Research Methods
University of Kansas                 University of Kansas
http://pj.freefaculty.org               http://quant.ku.edu

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