[R] Xgobi for windows NT

Simon Bond bond at graylab.ac.uk
Tue Nov 9 10:32:42 CET 1999


Dear R-Help,

Has anyone gotten Xgobi to work in conjunction with R on a windows NT
platform? About a month ago there was a thread in which Peter Ho gave a set
of instructions on how to do it on windows 95. These instructions worked
perfectly when I tried to follow them on a windows 95 pc, but  didn't when
it came to the NT pc on my desk. I'd be very grateful for a set of
instructions of similar detail.

Simon Bond

>Hi,
>
>Firstly, I would like to thank everyone who had replied to my earlier
>question of using Xgobi with R under windows. After a little messing around
>with the xgobi.bat file, I can now export data from R  into Xgobi running on
>the free MIX X server.
>In summary here is the procedure to make Xgobi work under windows for R:
>
>1) Download the Xgobi for windows executables from Brian Ripley's S-Liberries
>at
>
>                http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/SWin/
>
>I used the   xgobi3-99.zip  from 03-Mar-1999 09:55. Unzip it and place in any
>directory of your choice.
>
>
>2) Download R interface windows compiled library, xgobi.zip from CRAN or
>mirror sites and installed it in your library directory under which ever
>version of R you have running.
>
>3) Modify the xgobi.bat file found in (2) to read something like this:
>
>@echo off
>PATH=c:\windows\;
>set DISPLAY=your machine name: 0.0
>set XGOBID=c:/Xgobi3
>c:\Xgobi3\xgobi.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
>
>
>Thanks very much to Martin you suggested to use the pass argument. Although
>it didn't work using
>%1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9, whihc was originally there did.
>In my case my parent directory for Xgobi was Xgobi3.
>
>
>4) From within R do the following.
>
>>    library(xgobi)
>
>then you can use the function:
>
>> xgobi(your matrix or data.frame)
>
>
>That's ll you need to do.
>
>Thanks again
>
>Peter
>
>------------------------------------
>Peter Ho
>Escola Superior de Biotecnologia
>Universidade Católica Portuguesa
>Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida
>4200 Porto
>Portugal
>Tel: ++351-2-5580043
>

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