[R] NULL dev.lis()

[Pascal Oettli]

Martin,

Sorry, but what are you talking about ? Of course I know it is normal
to get this result. It is what I explained in my message!

Regards,
Pascal

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Martin Maechler
<maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>>>>> 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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>     >>
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>
>
>     > --
>     > Pascal Oettli
>     > Project Scientist
>     > JAMSTEC
>     > Yokohama, Japan
>
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-- 
Pascal Oettli
Project Scientist
JAMSTEC
Yokohama, Japan