R help - Feb 2002 - SJava still hates GUIs on Linux, both Blackdown and IBM... Can anyone verify IBM or Sun?

I've been having fun with crashes recently, both with Blackdown JDK
and the IBM JDK, while building up the ROrca interface.  It's just not
stable for me, and my lack of grokking the intimate details of lazy
evaluation is not helping.

Brushing works, though, which is nice.  I need a bit more stability
before I get the "data add/change" features in line, though.

Anyway, other than the above report, I'm requesting information
regarding stability of Swing components for both IBM and Sun JVMs
under Linux.  Any reports or anecdotal information would be welcome,
I'm curious mostly as to whether I need to evaluate Sun's Linux JVM,
or whether it is time to bite the bullet and write the small bit of
code (example is nicely documented, thanks Duncan!) to embed R in
Orca.  

Also, with respect to R within Java, has anyone gotten the example
script to work?    I'm getting the following:
> rossini 75 > ./RJava
> Loading RInterpreter library
> 
> R : Copyright 2002, The R Development Core Team
> Version 1.4.1  (2002-01-30)
> 
> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
> Type `license()' or `licence()' for distribution details.
> 
> R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
> Type `contributors()' for more information.
> 
> Type `demo()' for some demos, `help()' for on-line help, or
> `help.start()' for a HTML browser interface to help.
> Type `q()' to quit R.
> 
> [search]
> .GlobalEnv
> package:ctest
> Autoloads
> package:base
> [objects]
and then it pegs my CPU at 100%, "accepts" input in the loose sense (I
can type, but never get a response).

Or should I be firing it up in another way?

best,
-tony

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