Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.44.0304241356240.3136-100000@gannet.stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 2003-04-24T12:59:29Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Windows: Graphics appear only partially
In-Reply-To: <JJEBKFOIJAKFKJKPEKIFOENJCAAA.Alexander.Ploner@mep.ki.se>
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Alexander Ploner wrote:
> we have installed R in one of our computer labs. Running demo(grpahics)
> works, kindof, in that it produces all the usual plots without crashing, but
> the plots are incomplete: no color wheel, no pie chart, no boxplots, just
> some labelling, titles, and in rare cases, axes. We have tried this with
> both 1.7 and 1.6.2, with the same results. The computers are running Windows
> 2000, with somewhat elderly video cards (NVidia Vanta with 8 mb of video
> RAM), the monitor is set to 1024x768 and "true colors" (32 bit).
>
> Has anyone suggestions why this might be? What might be done?
I've no real idea: I used to run R happily on a W2k laptop with only 2.5Mb
of video memory (1024x768, 24bit). Looks like a graphics driver problem to
me: can you try 24bit or failing that 16bit?
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