[R] problem with x11 and PS devices on different machines

Timur Elzhov Timur.Elzhov at jinr.ru
Wed Nov 12 12:20:07 CET 2003


On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:26:51PM +0700, Philippe Glaziou wrote:

>>  I run R at home and the work, I have Debian Linux on both machines and
>>  the same 'r-base-core' deb packages installed. So I tried to run the
>>  same R script, which plots graph in x11 device and then dump it to eps
>>  file (x11 and eps you'll find attached). On the home machine there are
>>  some stranges in x11 plot as well as in eps file.  On the work machine
>>  all the ok, despite of that I use the _same_ version of binary deb
>>  package. May be any troubles with the font paths? Thank you in advance
>>  for any suggestions!
> x11-good.png: PNG image data, 600 x 420, 8-bit/color RGB,
> non-interlaced
> 
> x11-bad.png: PNG image data, 449 x 315, 8-bit/color RGB,
> non-interlaced
Right, "bad" x11() picture is smaller. These 'png' are simply their
screen shots (made by gimp).

> It could be that your X11 Modes differ between both machines,
> with a different number of dots per inch. 
I use the same resolution, 1024x768 on both machines. Anyway, I do
not think that xserver resolution is important for screenshot size
(in pixels) :)

--
Timur




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