[R] how to suppress some tk dialogs

[Prof Brian Ripley]

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
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