[R] Refreshing X11 plots

[(Ted Harding)]

Correction to description: see below.

On 04-Feb-06 Ted Harding wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> This question (or very similar) seems to have been
> asked before, acorsding to R Site Search:
> 
> Timur Elzhov on June 23 2003
> David B. Dahl on March 01 2002
> (though the latter appears to have date April 10 2003 according
> to the search result, but the above is the archive date).
> 
> Situation: I plot a lot of stuff in an X11 window (device #2),
> and then with X11() open a new X11 wibdow (device #3) and plot
> a lot of similar stuff. So, at this stage, device 3 is active.
> 
> Now I move away from that screen (switching to a different
> "desktop"), to do something else; and when I move back to
> where I was the "active" display (#3) refreshes itself, but
> the "inactive" one (#2) is blank and I have found no trick to
> get it to refresh itself short of replaying all the commands
> needed to draw the plot in the first place.

In fact it is apparently the plot on device #2 (the first device
opened) which refreshes itself, and the second plot (on device #3)
which goes blank and stays blank, regardless of the order in which
the plots are created and which device is currently active. Apologies!

> This is a similar issue to the one stated in the two mails referred
> to above, neither of which seems to have received an answer.
> 
> Is there a way to refresh the plot without re-plotting it from
> scratch? (R on Linux with X11).
> 
> With thanks, and best wishes to all,
> Ted.
> 
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> Date: 04-Feb-06                                       Time: 19:47:42
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