[R] Odd graphic device behavior

[peter dalgaard]

On Mar 27, 2013, at 18:11 , David Winsemius wrote:

> 
> On Mar 27, 2013, at 9:07 AM, Thomas Adams wrote:
> 
>> John,
>> 
>> Thanks for the suggestion, but no. I have even gone so far as to rebuild R
>> from source, re-booted my computer, and tried the 'experiment':
>> 
>>    require(stats)
>>    plot(cars)
>> 
>> immediately after starting R. Still the same result. I think it must be
>> related to some default Ubuntu Unity window manager default I can't sort
>> out.
> 
> Have your deleted the default workspace and history files? When they get corrupted, odd things can happen.
> 

...or try R --vanilla

The immediate suspicion is that something is tampering with your graphics device options, so

- figure out what device you are using (dev.list())
- if it is X11, have a look at X11.options()
- try running X11(width=7, height=7) to see if the automagic settings get it wrong.

- try system("xdpyinfo"); this may give a long list of gibberish, but look  for dimensions and resolution and see if they look sane. E.g., I get

screen #0:
  dimensions:    2560x1418 pixels (677x375 millimeters)
  resolution:    96x96 dots per inch




> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Tom
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:14 AM, John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Any chance that you made an earlier call to par() resetting cex in your
>>> session?  I just had that happen.
>>> 
>>> John Kane
>>> Kingston ON Canada
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: tea3rd at gmail.com
>>>> Sent: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:15:33 -0400
>>>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>>>> Subject: [R] Odd graphic device behavior
>>>> 
>>>> I'm experiencing odd graphics device behavior running R 2.15.3 on Ubuntu.
>>>> Regardless of what I try like:
>>>> 
>>>> require(stats)
>>>> plot(cars)
>>>> lines(lowess(cars))
>>>> plot(sin, -pi, 2*pi)
>>>> 
>>>> for example, the graphics device fills the entire screen with the graphic
>>>> and a very large font. When I shrink the graphics device window, the
>>>> lettering remains large and the line thicknesses stay quite thick. It may
>>>> have been some time since I have done any R work on my Ubuntu computer,
>>>> but
>>>> clearly this did not happen previously.
>>>> 
>>>> Does anyone have any thoughts?
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Tom
>>>> 
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> David Winsemius
> Alameda, CA, USA
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