[Pythonmac-SIG] Rpy in various interfaces

[Jan de Leeuw]

R is a statistics environment. All of R can be compiled into a dylib,
and the Rpy package on Sourceforge allows you to do R from
Python. R has various graphics devices for its plotting etc, there
is pdf(), x11(), eps(), jpeg() etc, which open these devices and
make them the current device.

Now I am interested in the situation where the device is X11.

If I run python (latest CVS build of 2.3a) from the terminal I can say

from rpy import *
r.x11()

and my device opens, a graphics window appears, and I can plot.
In fact I dont even have to say r.x11() explicitly, because from the
terminal that's the default device (if there is a X server running).

If I give the same commands from interactive mode in PythonIDE
it crashes. On the other hand

from rpy import *
r.x11(display='gifi.stat.ucla.edu:0.0')

works fine.

If I give either of these commands from IDLE, it crashes. Now this
does not surprise me, because there can be all kind of nasty
interactions between plotting modules and event loops.

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Jan de Leeuw; Professor and Chair, UCLA Department of Statistics;
Editor: Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Statistical  
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