Same problem here on Mac OS X 10.10.5 with R 3.2.2 and RStudio 0.99.473.
I think dev.new() tries to find a suitable device in an interactive session
with this code
dsp <- Sys.getenv("DISPLAY")
if (.Platform$OS.type == "windows")
windows
else if (.Platform$GUI == "AQUA" || ((!nzchar(dsp) ||
grepl("^/tmp/launch-", dsp)) && .Call(C_makeQuartzDefault)))
quartz
else if (nzchar(dsp) && .Platform$GUI %in% c("X11", "Tk"))
X11
else defdev
which fails for me because RStudio sets .Platform$GUI to "RStudio" (thanks,
RStudio!) and my DISPLAY variable looks like this
/private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.2wKas4wzPe/org.macosforge.xquartz:0
so the grepl() on dsp doesn't match.
Best,
Stefan
> On 26 Sep 2015, at 06:42, Skye Bender-deMoll <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Sorry, should have given more background. x11 works fine on all my systems
> when called by x11(). I'm the maintainer of a package that uses the
> animation library, which has performance issues when used with the RStudio
> plot device. But if you call plot.new() when using RStudio, you get an
> RStudio device, not the standard device for the platform because it overrides
> the device option. So I've had to have the library do platform detection and
> platform-specific device calls, which R CMD check doesn't like. I believe
> that noRStudioGD argument was avoided to give users a way around this, but it
> doesn't seem to be behaving correctly in the unix interactive case.
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