[R] Is it possible to modify the position of the graphic window ?

[Peter Dalgaard]

8rino-Luca Pantani wrote:
> I see.
> Thanks for your highly appreciated help, Prof. Ripley.
>
>
> I've been reading the x11 help file, only after people from this list 
> told me that it is the default in Linux
>
> Please consider that I recently (and definitely) moved to linux from 
> Windows, and I still need to re-learn a lot of things.
>
> I did'nt know that with "options" was possible to change the x11 windows.
> I typed the following, and it worked
> options(device= x11(xpos =500))
> moving the window on the left
> Now, if I'm allowed to push your patience a little further, how can I 
> make this change permanent ?
>   

Umm, I think that one only seemingly "works". It does the same as plain 
x11(xpos=500) followed by options(device=NULL) (try removing the window 
and then plot(0)).

More likely, you want
  options(device = function() x11(xpos=500) )
which you can handle using the techniques described under ?Startup (i.e. 
stick it in a .Rprofile file, for instance).

(xpos=-1 might be better if you switch between different-sized screens, 
though)
> Thanks again
> Ottorino Pantani
>
> Prof Brian Ripley ha scritto:
>   
>> On Linux the default graphics device is X11(), and not so on Windows.
>>
>> ?X11 tells you no less than *two* ways to do this: I do wonder why you 
>> don't just read the help file?
>>
>> ?options (see 'device') tells you how to set up a default device which 
>> you could use to change default arguments, but using the X11 geometry 
>> resources is the canonical way to do this.
>>
>> On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, 8rino-Luca Pantani wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> There's a Renviron file under /etc/R, but there are no lines with
>>> "position (x, y)".
>>>
>>> Henrique Dallazuanna ha scritto:
>>>       
>>>> In the Windows the file Rconsole contains the position(x,y) of the 
>>>> graphics.
>>>> I don't know if file have the same name in Ubuntu.
>>>>
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