[R-SIG-Mac] plot() does not give labels under quartz
Kasper Daniel Hansen
kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com
Wed Jan 19 16:23:33 CET 2011
I re-read the OP, and Ripley is right (as usual) (damnit :) What
seals the deal for me is that both x- and y-labels are missing.
Kasper
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
>
>> This _may_ be unrelated to a corrupt font cache. Note that the OP
>> says the issue is fixed by resizing the quartz screen.
>>
>> To see this in action (explanation below) I have posted
>> http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~khansen/screen1.png
>> (the initial look of the quartz window)
>> http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~khansen/screen2.png
>> (after resize)
>
> But the OP said (s)he had 'no numbers under the tics', whereas what you show
> is explicable as the effect of clipping and the axis annotation is there. I
> don't think it is the same issue, and I see no reference to resizing in the
> original post (the solution was to use X11()).
>
>> I have always had a (somewhat) similar experience: the first quartz
>> window does not show the entire plotting area. If one looks closely
>> (in my case) you can see the top of the xlab in the plotting window,
>> but there are no scroll bars indicating that the plot is bigger than
>> the screen estate, despite the fact that the little icon in the lower
>> left corner indicates that this is really the lower left corner (I am
>> referring to the "resize triangle" - no idea what the technical term
>> is).
>>
>> When I click the green button (maximize) twice I now get a window
>> where I can see everything (screen2).
>>
>> I have also assumed that this is because the default size of the
>> quartz device was bigger my laptop's screen (physical size, I am on a
>> Macbook right now). This is not an issue on an external monitor.
>> Specifically I have assumed that the window manager has problems
>> initializing a window that is physically bigger than the screen (note
>> that I say initializing - of course the window can be bigger than the
>> physical screen if I resize it to be so...). This is pure
>> speculation, I have no basis for these claims. I have always assumed
>> that this was a problem with Apple's SDK and not R. And while I have
>> the issue I have always felt it was not worth spending time fixing (if
>> it is even fixable by someone else than Apple).
>>
>> Now, the OP can see even less than I can. Perhaps she is using a new
>> Macbook Air with even less vertical physical size? Please respond to
>> this Tena.
>>
>> Finally, this was using R-2.12.1, compiled by myself, running from the
>> terminal but using the quartz device.
>>
>> Kasper
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
>> <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> Missing labels has been reported several times, and AFAIK has always
>>> indicated a corrupt font cache (or other problems in the font book).
>>> There
>>> are various ways to repair that, so I'll leave you to Google for one.
>>>
>>> On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Phillip Jardine wrote:
>>>
>>>> Tena,
>>>>
>>>> I had the same problem myself a few months ago, when I upgraded to OS X
>>>> 10.6.5 (from OS X 10.4) I don't know why this happened, but by trial and
>>>> error I found that putting family = "sans" into the plot command brought
>>>> back the labels.
>>>>
>>>> Bizarrely though things recently started working normally again, with no
>>>> updates/upgrades on my part. Strange, eh?
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, try the family = "sans" thing, it might help.
>>>>
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>>
>>>> Phil
>>>> --
>>>> Phil Jardine
>>>> Geosystems Research Group
>>>> School of Geography, Earth, and Environmental Sciences
>>>> University of Birmingham
>>>> Edgbaston
>>>> Birmingham
>>>> B15 2TT
>>>>
>>>> pej083 at bham.ac.uk
>>>> Tel. 0121 414 6146
>>>> http://www.gees.bham.ac.uk/staff/pgpej083.shtml
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From: r-sig-mac-bounces at r-project.org [r-sig-mac-bounces at r-project.org]
>>>> On
>>>> Behalf Of Tena Sakai [tsakai at gallo.ucsf.edu]
>>>> Sent: 19 January 2011 04:29
>>>> To: r-sig-mac at r-project.org
>>>> Subject: [R-SIG-Mac] plot() does not give labels under quarts.
>>>>
>>>> Greetings,
>>>>
>>>> I have noticed a bit odd behavior of plot() on OS X 10.6.5.
>>>> The R I downloaded from cran is R-2.12.1.pkg. Below is
>>>> what I did:
>>>>
>>>> R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
>>>> .
>>>> .
>>>> [R.app GUI 1.35 (5665) x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0]
>>>>
>>>> > foo <- c( 4, 6, 9 ,12 )
>>>> > moo <- c( 34, 37, 41, 49 )
>>>> > plot( foo ~ moo )
>>>>
>>>> This gives me a plot with no labels. No "moo", "foo", or numbers under
>>>> tics. But,
>>>>
>>>> > X11()
>>>> > plot( foo ~ moo )
>>>>
>>>> This gives me xlabel ("moo"), ylabel ("foo"), and numbers under tics.
>>>> In the first case, by default, I am using quartz, while the second,
>>>> obviously, I am using X11.
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody know why this happens under quartz and not under X11?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> Tena Sakai
>>>> tsakai at gallo.ucsf.edu
>
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