Odd graphic device behavior

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.

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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