Re: [R] Odd graphic device behavior

2013-03-29 Thread Thomas Adams
Thank you Peter, that sounds pretty reasonable. Best, Tom On Friday, March 29, 2013, peter dalgaard wrote: > > On Mar 28, 2013, at 22:27 , Thomas Adams wrote: > > > All, > > > > Well to my relief and embarrassment, I discovered my problem. About 5 > weeks > > ago, I shutdown my computer and move

Re: [R] Odd graphic device behavior

2013-03-29 Thread peter dalgaard
On Mar 28, 2013, at 22:27 , Thomas Adams wrote: > All, > > Well to my relief and embarrassment, I discovered my problem. About 5 weeks > ago, I shutdown my computer and moved it. When I reconnected everything I > apparently plugged my HDMI monitor into the 'wrong' output port without > realizing

Re: [R] Odd graphic device behavior

2013-03-28 Thread Thomas Adams
All, Well to my relief and embarrassment, I discovered my problem. About 5 weeks ago, I shutdown my computer and moved it. When I reconnected everything I apparently plugged my HDMI monitor into the 'wrong' output port without realizing it. So, on a whim, just now, I made the switch to the other p

Re: [R] Odd graphic device behavior

2013-03-28 Thread Thomas Adams
Luca, Thank you for the suggestion; I do have an Nvidia graphics card and I am using the Nvida driver; still searching for a solution, quite odd... Tom On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Luca Nanetti wrote: > Thomas, > any chance that you could have problems with your graphic driver? For > insta

Re: [R] Odd graphic device behavior

2013-03-28 Thread Luca Nanetti
Thomas, any chance that you could have problems with your graphic driver? For instance, if you have an Nvidia graphic card, I would recommend switching from the 'nouveau' driver to the official Nvidia one. Kind regards, luca [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __

Re: [R] Odd graphic device behavior

2013-03-27 Thread peter dalgaard
On Mar 27, 2013, at 19:26 , Thomas Adams wrote: > Peter, > > Thank you. > > When I run: X11(width=7, height=7), I get the same full-screen graphics > device window. > Running dev.list() gives me X11cairo > Running system("xdpyinfo") looks reasonable > > I tried running options(device="x11")

Re: [R] Odd graphic device behavior

2013-03-27 Thread Thomas Adams
ote: > >> > >>> 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 > >>> > >>> > >>>> --

Re: [R] Odd graphic device behavior

2013-03-27 Thread peter dalgaard
ession? I just had that happen. >>> >>> John Kane >>> Kingston ON Canada >>> >>> >>>> -Original Message- >>>> From: tea...@gmail.com >>>> Sent: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:15:33 -0400 >>>> To: r-help@r-pr

Re: [R] Odd graphic device behavior

2013-03-27 Thread David Winsemius
ssage----- >>> From: tea...@gmail.com >>> Sent: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:15:33 -0400 >>> To: r-help@r-project.org >>> Subject: [R] Odd graphic device behavior >>> >>> I'm experiencing odd graphics device behavior running R 2.15.3 on Ubuntu. &g

Re: [R] Odd graphic device behavior

2013-03-27 Thread Thomas Adams
; -Original Message- > > From: tea...@gmail.com > > Sent: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:15:33 -0400 > > To: r-help@r-project.org > > Subject: [R] Odd graphic device behavior > > > > I'm experiencing odd graphics device behavior running R 2.15.3 on Ubuntu. > &

Re: [R] Odd graphic device behavior

2013-03-27 Thread John Kane
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: tea...@gmail.com > Sent: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:15:33 -0400 > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Odd

[R] Odd graphic device behavior

2013-03-26 Thread Thomas Adams
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 d