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Miniature plot windows

I was able to fix the problem by adding to my .Rprofile

setHook(packageEvent("grDevices", "onLoad"),
        function(...) grDevices::quartz.options(dpi=127))

This creates a 7" x 7" plot by default after restarting R. The 127 is the screen's native dpi (254) divided by 2.

I'm not sure where .External(C_Quartz, ...) is getting dpi from when it is NULL (the default), but the value was too small apparently.

Erik
On Jan 22, 2024, at 10:06?AM, Bryan Hanson <hanson at depauw.edu> wrote:
Just guessing here, but did you re-install/update XQuartz?  That?s recommended for new hardware and significant jumps in the R version.

Bryan
On Jan 22, 2024, at 7:41?AM, Wright, Erik Scott <ESWRIGHT at pitt.edu<mailto:ESWRIGHT at pitt.edu>> wrote:
Hi all,

I recently upgraded to a new Macbook Pro (Nov 23). Now every plot is miniaturized.

For example, my screen measures about 13.5" x 8.8" with a ruler. When I create a new plot with plot(1:10) or quartz(height=7, width=7), the plot measures 2.0" x 2.0".

It is simple enough to initialize larger plot windows with dev.new or quartz(height=24.5, width=24.5), but the points and font stay miniaturized. Of course, I could rescale every single plot feature by 3.5-fold, but that seems like an inefficient solution.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Erik

R version 4.3.2 (2023-10-31)
Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Sonoma 14.2.1

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