[R-SIG-Mac] Minor bug in Quartz sizing

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 11-09-03 5:03 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Duncan Murdoch
> <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> With a current R-patched (2.13.1 Patched (2011-09-02 r56906)), the following
>> code generates plots missing the bottom labels:
>>
>> par(mfrow = c(4, 5), mar = c(2.1, 2.1, 4.1, 1.1))
>> for (i in 1:20) plot(1)
>>
>> If I resize the plot at all, it's redrawn correctly, with all margins
>> showing.  After resizing, repetitions in the old window are fine, but if I
>> close it and try again, the error re-surfaces.
>>
>> I'm on Mac OSX 10.6.8.
>
> I have often seen the issue missing bottom labels on the default
> window on my old 13in macbook.  I have always assumed (and I could be
> wrong) that this had something to do with the actual dimensions of the
> screen.  Recently I switched to a 15in macbook pro and I have never
> had this problem (and I never observed it when I connected my 13in to
> an external display).  I have various incoherent theories about why
> this happens, but I will just state my observation: this only happens
> on the native screen of a smaller laptop.

I'm using a Macbook Air with a 1440 x 900 screen.  If I resize the 
screen to 1024 x 768, it does look a little worse.

Duncan Murdoch