[R-SIG-Mac] Graphics in R, version 4.3.2, does not work well in MacOS

[Duncan Murdoch]

I don't think you have described how you installed R.  Did you use the 
installer from CRAN, or build it yourself, or get it from some other 
source like Homebrew or MacPorts?

Duncan Murdoch

On 16/02/2024 4:25 a.m., María de los Ángeles Casares de Cal via 
R-SIG-Mac wrote:
> Dear Simon and anyone else who might be interested in this:
> 
> I have studied in more detail the problem referred to in the message below, and can confirm that R does not work well on macOS when I do graphics (plots).
> I have only tested with the "abline” command, using the examples that are in R’s help. And it does not work.
> I have tested it on several computers, in Terminal and with RGUI.
> I have also checked it in RStudio in macOS (it does work) and with R in Windows (it does work).
> 
> What I have done is the following:
> In the "abline" command help, the first example is:
> ## Setup up coordinate system (with x == y aspect ratio):
> plot(c(-2,3), c(-1,5), type = "n", xlab = "x", ylab = "y", asp = 1)
> ## the x- and y-axis, and an integer grid
> abline(h = 0, v = 0, col = "gray60")
> text(1,0, "abline( h = 0 )", col = "gray60", adj = c(0, -.1))
> abline(h = -1:5, v = -2:3, col = "lightgray", lty = 3)
> abline(a = 1, b = 2, col = 2)
> text(1,3, "abline( 1, 2 )", col = 2, adj = c(-.1, -.1))
> 
> if I run line by line, R does not do the plots (only open the Quartz window).
> If I run all together, R does the plots sometimes yes and sometimes no.
> 
> I have the latest stable version of XQuartz (2.8.5)
> 
> What could be the problem?
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> Best regards.
> María-Ángeles Casares-de-Cal
> 
> 
>> Inicio del mensaje reenviado:
>>
>> De: María de los Ángeles Casares de Cal <macdec using me.com>
>> Asunto: Spanish version of R, version 4.3.2, does not work
>> Fecha: 14 de febrero de 2024, 20:29:09 CET
>> Para: r-sig-mac using r-project.org
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I have a problem since I have installed the last version of R 4.3.2 (spanish version)
>> R does not work!
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> x <- 1:20         		        #this is ok
>> y <- 10 + rnorm(n=20,mean=0,sd=1)  	#this is ok
>> plot(x,y,pch=20,col="red")  	        #this is ok, but I have to run some times this
>> model <- lm(y~x)                        #this is ok
>> summary(model)  		        #this is ok
>> abline(model)      		        #R does not plot the regression line in the window where I have the points.
>>
>> (And this code in RStudio works well).
>>
>> (I have installed the last version of XQuartz.)
>>
>> I do not know what is the problem.
>> Perhaps, because is the Spanish version?
>> How can I install the English version?
>>
>> Any help?
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>> Best regards.
>> María-Ángeles Casares-de-Cal
> 
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