[R] Error in plot.new()

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:15 PM, jean luc picard <peter.wohlmuth at gmx.at> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I have received the following error message since R 2.10.1 for the first
> time and I am not able to draw graphics any more:
>
>> plot(1:5,1:5)
>> plot(1:5,1:5)
> Error in plot.new() : figure margins too large
> In addition: Warning message:
> Display list redraw incomplete
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
> i486-pc-linux-gnu
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
>
> Do you have an idea, how to solve the problem?

 I have an identical system according to sessionInfo() but no problem...

 Are you sure you don't have a 'plot' function defined yourself that
is being loaded? Run R with --vanilla from the command line:

R --vanilla

 and see if it still fails. The '--vanilla' option stops R loading in
a .RData file from the current directory.

 Ooh, I can duplicate your problem if I resize my plot window very
small after the first plot. What do you see after your first
plot(1:5,1:5)? Anything? Possibly you've got some setting that's
making your graphics window very small, but I don't see why it happens
on the second plot.

 Anyway, try --vanilla and that might cut out some possibilities.

Barry

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