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

[Simon Urbanek]

Maria,

can you, please, include the full output of sessionInfo() in R and 
system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep Model
in Terminal? I cannot replicate it, either, but then we have no idea which hardware and macOS you are using.

Thanks,
Simon



> On Feb 16, 2024, at 10:25 PM, María de los Ángeles Casares de Cal <macdec using me.com> 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
>