[Rd] [R] x11() graphic device, displaying raster

[Johannes Radinger]

> >>>>> Hello,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am wondering about the X11() graphic device on Windows.
> >>>>> I try to plot a raster image but nothing gets displayed. I
> >>>>> found some pages where it is mentioned that x11() not
> >>>>> always supports raster rendering.
> >>>>> Is there any add on for x11, any update or any R-package
> >>>>> which solves that displaying problem in Windows?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What I try to test it is an example from the
> >>>>> package {raster}:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> library(raster)
> >>>>> DEU_alt<- getData("alt", country="DEU", mask=TRUE)
> >>>>> x11()
> >>>>> plot(DEU_alt,axes=TRUE)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> best regards,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> /johannes
> >>>>
> >>>> Try an R version that is recent - it works for me.
> >>>>
> >>>> Uwe Ligges
> >>>
> >>> I first tried it with R 2.13.2 and raster version 1.9-64
> >> (16-January-2012).
> >>> Now I also installed the most recent version R 2.14.1 (Platform:
> >> i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)) and raster version 1.9-64
> (16-January-2012).
> >>>
> >>> But in both cases no success. X11() opens and draws the axis and the
> >>> border for the scale but no raster...
> >>
> >> I do not really understand why you are using x11(). The Windows device
> >> is called windows() and you actually do not need to open it, since plot
> >> opens it anyway. Or are you under cygwin (which is not really Windows)?
> >> If not: Which version of Windows is this?
> >
> > Of course I do not need to open a graphic device (as you said it is open
> when calling plot). I just wanted to make it reproducable as e.g. Mac OS X
> opens Quartz as a standard device when calling plot on my Mac machine.
> >
> > So far as I understand the help are "all the devices (X11(), x11() and
> windows() implemented as variants of the same device". Thus it makes no
> difference if I call x11() or windows() or if 'plot' opens the device
> automatically. In all cases there is no raster displayed.
> >
> > Just some additional information from the 'grDevices' package:
> >> library(grDevices)
> >> dev.capabilities()
> > $semiTransparency
> > [1] TRUE
> >
> > $transparentBackground
> > [1] "fully"
> >
> > $rasterImage
> > [1] "yes"
> >
> > $capture
> > [1] TRUE
> >
> > $locator
> > [1] TRUE
> >
> > $events
> > [1] "MouseDown" "MouseMove" "MouseUp"   "Keybd"
> >
> > I am running R via the standard RGUI (so no Eclipse, Rtinn etc.). The
> machine I am working on is Windows 2008 Server Enterprise (Version 6.0) which
> I am remotely accessing from a ThinClient with WindowsXP-embedded.
> > This is the standard configuration of our institution. Maybe that
> configuration with ThinClients is a reason? But what should I ask our admin? What
> should he check etc?
> 
> Yes! the remotesoftware is probably unable to send the rasterimage!
> 
> See ?image:
> 
> "Problems with the rendering of raster images have been reported using 
> ‘windows()’ devices under Remote Desktop."
> 


I shifted this corresponce over to the more suitable r-devel-list.

@Uwe Ligges: Thank you for that usefull but very disappointing message. So it seems that these are know problems caused by the RemoteDesktop Setup.

I just wanted to know if the source of the problem is caused by the R-code or the RemoteDesktop Software. If it is caused by the RemoteDesktop (as you stated)..are there any settings which need to be set by our IT-admin? Or is there anything I/we can do to solve that problem?

Best regards,

Johannes


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