Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.58.0401071052070.104212@homer38.u.washington.edu>
Date: 2004-01-07T19:05:49Z
From: Thomas Lumley
Subject: Sweave and X11 on OSX 10.3
In-Reply-To: <16380.13640.861086.541421@celebrian.ci.tuwien.ac.at>
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 Friedrich.Leisch at ci.tuwien.ac.at wrote:
> I see, could in this case R for the Mac be smarter about what the
> default graphics device should be? This is not an Sweave issue, it
> simply means that under the setup described above any call to plot()
> ---without actively opening a device first---will fail ...
>
R for the mac should probably be less smart. Since options("device") is
set at start-up there isn't much ability to tell what it should be, and we
could just use "postscript" (though "pdf" might be more appropriate on a
Mac). We have been reluctant to special-case mac code unnecessarily, but
this does indicate a case where it might be necessary.
In the medium term this problem should go away if we get the quartz()
driver working more widely.
-thomas