help ask for the list of command line arguments accepted by GGobi and a brief description of each. display help on the console s specifies the input mode as being S (i.e. R or S-Plus) data, i.e. coming from an S process. use S (R or S-Plus) as the data mode ascii specifies the input mode as being ASCII, the old-style xgobi format in which the data, variable names, record labels, colors, etc. are given in separate but parallel files identified by particular extensions. use the xgobi-style ASCII data mode xml specifies the input mode as being XML, the new style GGobi format which allows multiple self-contained datasets to be included in a single file, URI, string, etc. use XML data format mysql currently ignored. Intended to specify that one should use the MySQL plugin to read the data. This is now done via datamode ignored. See --datamode. validate activate validation mode when reading XML input. This is only supported if configured with support for XML. validate XML datasets during input v verbose set the level of diagnostic output to high which means that GGobi will print a lot of messages to the console indicating what it is currently doing. This is useful for debugging. display verbose diagnostic output on console V silent set the diagnostic output to off so that very few messages are printed to the screen. display little or no diagnostic output version print the version information on the console. This should be used when submitting a bug report. display version information init specify the name of the initialization file from which to read preferences, available plugins, etc. name of initialization file noinit specifies that no initialization file should be used. don't read any initialization files colorschemes specify the name of the XML source file or URL from which to read the session-wide colorschemes to use within GGobi. name of XML file containing color scheme descriptions. activeColorScheme specify the name of the active/default colorscheme to use in a newly created GGobi. The value should exactly match the name of the desired colorscheme given in the XML file. name of the default color scheme to use datamode specifies the mode for reading the data. This gives the input mechanism a hint and can also be used to identify a particular input plugin by giving its modeName value. specify datamode (for plugins) keepalive toggles whether to quit when there are no GGobi instances remaining. By default, this is true. So specifying this argument turns it off and means that the GGobi session will persist eventhough there are no GGobis and no way for the user to interact with the session via a GUI. This is for use when embedding GGobi within other applications and/or languages, e.g. RSggobi don't terminate if no GGobi windows are open restore specifies the name of a file/URL containing a description of a previous GGobi session which will be used to attempt to recreate that session. restore a previously saved GGobi session. home displays the location of the installed GGobi files such as the data/, lib/ directories. display GGobi home directory plugin specify the name of a file giving information in XML for a single plugin. name of XML file for single plugin