[ESS] Graphics in emacs window: how to copy R screen devices in non-interactive sessions (remotes)

[Ista Zahn]

Vitalie, thanks for the update. May I ask, is this new R IDE to be
emacs-based or a separate project?

Thanks,
Ista

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 4:41 AM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The whole thing is stuck in emacs image support which is pretty limited
> at this stage. I am working on a rewrite of emacs' image related
> functionality (https://github.com/vspinu/image-transform) and it's quite
> close to completion. My next target is to make image fetching and
> display work through R-nREPL connections
> (https://github.com/vspinu/R-nREPL). Then, I might consider some simple
> ESS integration, but it's not the priority at the moment. I am
> determined to build a new R IDE based on rigorous communication
> protocol. So most my free time will be spent there.
>
>   Vitalie
>
>  >>> Michael Lawrence on Sat, 24 Jan 2015 15:16:41 -0800 wrote:
>
>  > This indeed would be great to have. The evaluate package offers one
>  > way forward for the technical issue discussed earlier in the thread.
>  > If there is anything R could do to make this easier, please let me
>  > know.
>
>  > On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Ista Zahn <istazahn using gmail.com> wrote:
>  >> Sorry for bringing back this very old thread, but I would be happy to
>  >> hear if there has been any progress towards getting graphics to
>  >> display in emacs. Has this been put on the back-burner, or abandoned?
>  >>
>  >> Best,
>  >> Ista
>  >>
>  >> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Yihui Xie <xie using yihui.name> wrote:
>  >>> Yes. That seems to be very inefficient at the first sight, but at the
>  >>> moment there is no way of knowing whether the current device has been
>  >>> updated. In evaluate, we recordPlot() after each expression, and
>  >>> compare it with the last recorded plot; if they are identical, we
>  >>> discard the current one.
>  >>>
>  >>> Regards,
>  >>> Yihui
>  >>> --
>  >>> Yihui Xie <xieyihui using gmail.com>
>  >>> Web: http://yihui.name>> Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
>  >>> 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit using gmail.com> wrote:
>  >>>> >>> Yihui Xie on Mon, 18 Nov 2013 20:27:53 -0600 wrote:
>  >>>>
>  >>>> > Evaluate captures plots after each R expression,
>  >>>>
>  >>>> Does that mean that you capture the same plot multiple times if a
>  >>>> sub-expression didn't generate any graphic output?
>  >>>>
>  >>>> I will look into it, it might be a way to go, though it feels like a
>  >>>> very heavy interference with the user input. Moreover, the input must be
>  >>>> a syntactically valid expression, and this is often not the case with
>  >>>> ESS. R debugger will probably not work, or will it?
>  >>>>
>  >>>>
>  >>>> Vitalie
>  >>>>
>  >>>>
>  >>>
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