R help - Sep 2005 - Copying from graphics window in OS X

I'm running R from an Xterm window is OSX-Tiger.  Graphical windows 
appear as they should, but I'm having trouble copying from them--using 
cmd+c or the Copy option in the Edit menu won't place the graph in the 
clipboard (when I paste into a running OS X app, I get whatever was the 
last copied thing from a non-x11 window).  Any ideas on how to copy from 
a xterm-launched graphical window?  I can copy/paste into and out of the 
xterm command line, but I can't get anything from a graphical window.

Thanks!

On 9/15/05 3:14 PM, "Chris Wiita" <cgwiita at ucla.edu> wrote:
> I'm running R from an Xterm window is OSX-Tiger.  Graphical windows
> appear as they should, but I'm having trouble copying from them--using
> cmd+c or the Copy option in the Edit menu won't place the graph in the
> clipboard (when I paste into a running OS X app, I get whatever was the
> last copied thing from a non-x11 window).  Any ideas on how to copy from
> a xterm-launched graphical window?  I can copy/paste into and out of the
> xterm command line, but I can't get anything from a graphical window.
I don't think it is possible, but I would love to be corrected.  You can
simple make a png, pdf, etc. if you want to save the graphic.

Sean

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I'm using R for Mac OS X Aqua GUI. It allows me to copy graphs directly,
simply with command-c.
It's pretty nice, you can give it a try.
Greetings.
Felipe

Chris Wiita wrote:
| I'm running R from an Xterm window is OSX-Tiger.  Graphical windows
| appear as they should, but I'm having trouble copying from them--using
| cmd+c or the Copy option in the Edit menu won't place the graph in the
| clipboard (when I paste into a running OS X app, I get whatever was the
| last copied thing from a non-x11 window).  Any ideas on how to copy from
| a xterm-launched graphical window?  I can copy/paste into and out of the
| xterm command line, but I can't get anything from a graphical window.
|
| Thanks!
|
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You can try FreeSnap, a screen capture program for OS X:
    http://www.efritz.net/software.html

Also, why are you running R from an XTerm?  There is an OS X native
version of R that might be better integrated with OS X for doing
screen captures:
   http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/macosx/

Jamie

On 9/15/05, Chris Wiita <cgwiita at ucla.edu>
wrote:
> I'm running R from an Xterm window is OSX-Tiger.  Graphical windows
> appear as they should, but I'm having trouble copying from them--using
> cmd+c or the Copy option in the Edit menu won't place the graph in the
> clipboard (when I paste into a running OS X app, I get whatever was the
> last copied thing from a non-x11 window).  Any ideas on how to copy from
> a xterm-launched graphical window?  I can copy/paste into and out of the
> xterm command line, but I can't get anything from a graphical window.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide!
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
>

I just tried using Ctrl-C to do a copy a plot from a graphic window
using the Cocoa version of OS X that you can download from the link
below and I was able to paste the plot into a document.

Jamie

On 9/15/05, Jamieson Cobleigh <cobleigh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, why are you running R from an XTerm?  There is an OS X native
> version of R that might be better integrated with OS X for doing
> screen captures:
>    http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/macosx/

you may try :
bmp("myimage.bmp");
plot(...);
dev.off();
# png(), jpeg() also available
hih