[R] Odd graphic device behavior

[David Winsemius]

On Mar 27, 2013, at 9:07 AM, Thomas Adams wrote:

> John,
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion, but no. I have even gone so far as to rebuild R
> from source, re-booted my computer, and tried the 'experiment':
> 
>     require(stats)
>     plot(cars)
> 
> immediately after starting R. Still the same result. I think it must be
> related to some default Ubuntu Unity window manager default I can't sort
> out.

Have your deleted the default workspace and history files? When they get corrupted, odd things can happen.


> 
> Regards,
> Tom
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:14 AM, John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote:
> 
>> Any chance that you made an earlier call to par() resetting cex in your
>> session?  I just had that happen.
>> 
>> John Kane
>> Kingston ON Canada
>> 
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: tea3rd at gmail.com
>>> Sent: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:15:33 -0400
>>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>>> Subject: [R] Odd graphic device behavior
>>> 
>>> I'm experiencing odd graphics device behavior running R 2.15.3 on Ubuntu.
>>> Regardless of what I try like:
>>> 
>>> require(stats)
>>> plot(cars)
>>> lines(lowess(cars))
>>> plot(sin, -pi, 2*pi)
>>> 
>>> for example, the graphics device fills the entire screen with the graphic
>>> and a very large font. When I shrink the graphics device window, the
>>> lettering remains large and the line thicknesses stay quite thick. It may
>>> have been some time since I have done any R work on my Ubuntu computer,
>>> but
>>> clearly this did not happen previously.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone have any thoughts?
>>> 
>>> Thank you,
>>> Tom
>>> 
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA