[R] Can I disable Cairo?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

See the help page!

     type: character string, one of ‘"Xlib"’ or ‘"quartz"’ (some Mac OS
           X builds) or ‘"cairo"’.  The latter will only be available if
           the system was compiled with support for cairo - otherwise
           ‘"Xlib"’ will be used.  The default is set by
           ‘getOption("bitmapType")’ - the ‘out of the box’ default is
           ‘"quartz"’ or ‘"cairo"’ where available, otherwise ‘"Xlib"’.

On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Mario Valle wrote:

> On Linux 2.13 by default links cairo, so png() uses it for rendering.
> One of my users has performance problem, so ask if it possible to temporary 
> disable cairo during png() rendering so it reverts to grGraphics.

Whatever that is ... Xlib perhaps?

> My workaround for now is to configure R without cairo, but this affects all 
> users that are forced to load and use CairoDevice if they wants better 
> quality.
> I want to avoid this, is it possible?

> Thanks!
>                            mario
>
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