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.

Regards,
Tom


On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:14 AM, John Kane <jrkrideau@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@gmail.com
> > Sent: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:15:33 -0400
> > To: r-help@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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