Graphics in R, version 4.3.2, does not work well in MacOS

Sun, Feb 18, 2024 8:46 AM

Dear Simon,

Thank you very much for your interest.
Here is the information.

I have downloaded R from CRAN: https://cloud.r-project.org/

sessionInfo()
R version 4.3.2 (2023-10-31)
Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Sonoma 14.3.1

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-arm64/Resources/lib/libRblas.0.dylib 
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib;  LAPACK version 3.11.0

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

time zone: Europe/Madrid
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.3.2

system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep Model
      Model Name: MacBook Air
      Model Identifier: Mac14,2
      Model Number: Z161000GJY/A

And it happens to me the same as others who have written on the list about this issue:
Using the default quartz() device and running the R?s help example of abline, line by line, shows a blank device.
If the device window is resized, however, the expected result appears.

Thank you very much.

Best regards.
?ngeles

El 18 feb 2024, a las 5:01, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> escribi?:

Maria,

can you, please, include the full output of sessionInfo() in R and 
system_profiler SPHardwareDataType | grep Model
in Terminal? I cannot replicate it, either, but then we have no idea which hardware and macOS you are using.

Thanks,
Simon

On Feb 16, 2024, at 10:25 PM, Mar?a de los ?ngeles Casares de Cal <macdec at me.com> wrote:

Dear Simon and anyone else who might be interested in this:

I have studied in more detail the problem referred to in the message below, and can confirm that R does not work well on macOS when I do graphics (plots).
I have only tested with the "abline? command, using the examples that are in R?s help. And it does not work.
I have tested it on several computers, in Terminal and with RGUI. 
I have also checked it in RStudio in macOS (it does work) and with R in Windows (it does work).

What I have done is the following:
In the "abline" command help, the first example is:
## Setup up coordinate system (with x == y aspect ratio):

plot
(c(-2,3), c(-1,5), type = "n", xlab = "x", ylab = "y", asp = 1)
## the x- and y-axis, and an integer grid

abline
(h = 0, v = 0, col = "gray60")

text
(1,0, "abline( h = 0 )", col = "gray60", adj = c(0, -.1))

abline
(h = -1:5, v = -2:3, col = "lightgray", lty = 3)

abline
(a = 1, b = 2, col = 2)

text
(1,3, "abline( 1, 2 )", col = 2, adj = c(-.1, -.1))

if I run line by line, R does not do the plots (only open the Quartz window).
If I run all together, R does the plots sometimes yes and sometimes no.

I have the latest stable version of XQuartz (2.8.5)

What could be the problem?

Thank you in advance.
Best regards.
Mar?a-?ngeles Casares-de-Cal

Inicio del mensaje reenviado:

De: Mar?a de los ?ngeles Casares de Cal <macdec at me.com>
Asunto: Spanish version of R, version 4.3.2, does not work
Fecha: 14 de febrero de 2024, 20:29:09 CET
Para: r-sig-mac at r-project.org

Hi everyone,

I have a problem since I have installed the last version of R 4.3.2 (spanish version)
R does not work!

For example:

x <- 1:20         		        #this is ok
y <- 10 + rnorm(n=20,mean=0,sd=1)  	#this is ok
plot(x,y,pch=20,col="red")  	        #this is ok, but I have to run some times this
model <- lm(y~x)                        #this is ok
summary(model)  		        #this is ok
abline(model)      		        #R does not plot the regression line in the window where I have the points.

(And this code in RStudio works well).

(I have installed the last version of XQuartz.)

I do not know what is the problem.
Perhaps, because is the Spanish version?
How can I install the English version?

Any help?
Thank you in advance.

Best regards.
Mar?a-?ngeles Casares-de-Cal

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