[R] NULL dev.lis()

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Pascal Oettli via R-help <r-help at r-project.org>
>>>>>     on Mon, 9 Nov 2015 14:18:37 +0900 writes:

    > Dear Tom,
    > Running R 3.2.2 on Ubuntu 15.04, if I run dev.list(), I get NULL.

Yes, indeed with all "regular" / "default" versions of R.

I you don't get that, you must have set something user-specific,
or possibly site-specific if you have a particularly customized site
maintainer setup.

Read
   ?Startup
   ?options

etc.

    > And I guess it is the expected behavior, as per the help page, it "returns
    > the numbers of all open devices, except device 1, the null device".
    > So, if I run

    > x11()
    > dev.list()

    > I get

    > X11cairo
    > 2

    > HTH,
    > Pascal

    > On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Thomas Adams <tea3rd at gmail.com> wrote:
    >> All,
    >> 
    >> I have previous built R from source many times, generally, without
    >> problems. However on my new Ubuntu 15.04 Linux system with R 3.2.2 when I
    >> run the command dev.list() I get:
    >> 
    >>> dev.list()
    >> NULL
    >> 
    >> At the completion of running ./configure, I have
    >> 
    >> R is now configured for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
    >> 
    >> Source directory:          .
    >> Installation directory:    /usr/local
    >> 
    >> C compiler:                gcc -std=gnu99  -g -O2
    >> Fortran 77 compiler:       gfortran  -g -O2
    >> 
    >> C++ compiler:              g++  -g -O2
    >> C++ 11 compiler:           g++  -std=c++11 -g -O2
    >> Fortran 90/95 compiler:    gfortran -g -O2
    >> Obj-C compiler:
    >> 
    >> Interfaces supported:      X11
    >> External libraries:        readline, zlib, lzma, PCRE, curl
    >> Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, TIFF, NLS, cairo, ICU
    >> Options enabled:           shared BLAS, R profiling
    >> 
    >> Capabilities skipped:
    >> Options not enabled:       memory profiling
    >> 
    >> Recommended packages:      yes
    >> 
    >> This issue is causing me problems with spplot, which I have posted on
    >> r-sig-geo. R and the display of all other graphics seems to be fine,
    >> otherwise. My previous installations of R would yield:
    >> 
    >>> dev.list()
    >> X11cairo
    >> 2
    >> 
    >> And I had no problems with spplot. Any thoughts?
    >> 
    >> Regards,
    >> Tom
    >> 
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    > -- 
    > Pascal Oettli
    > Project Scientist
    > JAMSTEC
    > Yokohama, Japan

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