[R] Odd graphic device behavior

[peter dalgaard]

On Mar 27, 2013, at 19:26 , Thomas Adams wrote:

> Peter,
> 
> Thank you. 
> 
> When I run: X11(width=7, height=7), I get the same full-screen graphics device window.
> Running dev.list() gives me X11cairo
> Running system("xdpyinfo") looks reasonable
> 
> I tried running options(device="x11") at the R prompt, but this did not seem to change anything.

And X11.options() said what?

> 
> When I started R with R --vanilla and then did:
> 
> > require(stats)
> >      plot(cars)
> 
> I got:
> 
> Error in plot.new() : figure margins too large
> 
> ... but the window was a reasonable size. However, after I resized the graphics device window modestly and re-ran plot(cars), the plot was generated in the resized window, but the lettering was large as before and the lines were thick as they were previously.

Something's clearly up with the device's notion of pointsize. Or inches.

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