R help - Nov 2002 - X11 resources

Would it be hard to make the X11 device driver in R accept general X11
resources?  In particular I would like to be able to set the title of
the graphics window when I start it up.  (Note this is not the same
thing as the title of a plot but rather is the character string
visible to the window manager, and usually goes in a titlebar on top.)

For example in Splus one can do

  > motif('-xrm "sgraphMotif*title: Hello World"')

Is there a way of doing a similar thing in R?

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Ed Kademan <kademan at phz.com> wrote:
> Would it be hard to make the X11 device driver in R accept general X11 
> resources? In particular I would like to be able to set the title of 
> the graphics window when I start it up...
You can install and use "xwit" to modify the R graphics window after
it has
been created.  To modify all open X11 graphics devices:
R> system("xwit -name 'Hello world' -names 'R
Graphics'")

If you need to specify just the current device:
R> system(paste("xwit -name 'Hello world' -names 'R
Graphics: Device ",
+               dev.cur(), "'", sep=""))

I use "xwit" to move the window where I like it (-move option), and it
can do
other things as well.  Download it from
<ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/utilities/>.
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