I want to modify my Gui preferences to get rid of the MDI toolbar and status bar. [ Under Windows XP and R 1.8.1 and 1.9.0.] When I uncheck the boxes and click "apply" I am told to save the preferences and the changes will take effect when restarting R. I click "save" and a box comes up to ask me to save Rconsole (I'm not sure where this should be saved but I navigate my way to where the old Rconsole was and save on top of it. Strangely I am not asked if I want to replace the old Rconsole. Anyway when I re-start there are no changes and I am still cluttered up by the MDI bars that I want to get rid of! Murray -- Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand Email: maj at waikato.ac.nz Fax 7 838 4155 Phone +64 7 838 4773 wk +64 7 849 6486 home Mobile 021 1395 862
On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Murray Jorgensen wrote:> I want to modify my Gui preferences to get rid of the MDI toolbar and > status bar. [ Under Windows XP and R 1.8.1 and 1.9.0.] > > When I uncheck the boxes and click "apply" I am told to save the > preferences and the changes will take effect when restarting R. I click > "save" and a box comes up to ask me to save Rconsole (I'm not sure where > this should be saved but I navigate my way to where the old Rconsole was > and save on top of it.?Rconsole tells you where the copy in use is saved.> Strangely I am not asked if I want to replace the old Rconsole.That's programmable, but from this dialog box one would normally want to overwrite, no?> Anyway when I re-start there are no changes and I am still cluttered up > by the MDI bars that I want to get rid of!I think this might be another manifestation of that Microsoft bug, since the normal place to look is in the user's home directory. You need to make sure the copy you saved is being used. (I have just tested this, and it does still work.) -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
At 06:05 24/04/2004, you wrote:>I'm not sure how to find 'HOME' but I presume that it is the path that appears in the 'Change directory' box when you open this through the gui. In which case for me 'HOME' is > >C:\apps\R\rw1090 > >Now I have 3 versions of Rconsole near here. They are in > >C:\apps\R\rw1090\etc >C:\apps\R\rw1090 and >C:\apps\R > >I still don't know how to change my Gui preferences!Murray, I don?t use win XP, I use win 98 SE. In my system I know de 'HOME' with a simple procedure: 1- Look R shortcut 2- Right Click in R shortcut 3- Choose properties 4- Look satrt in box 5- de directorie in box is the 'HOME' Bernardo Rangel Tura, MD, MSc National Institute of Cardiology Laranjeiras Rio de Janeiro Brazil