Hi Rolf,
please excuse a short "top-reply":
As I see you are using an operating system (instead of Win..),
can you try in the shell
echo 'X11.options()$type' | R --vanilla --slave
and does that really *not* report
[1] "cairo"
??
(and BTW: Your subject had tolower("LL") instead of "11" )
>>>>> Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz>
>>>>> on Mon, 8 Aug 2011 12:49:44 +1200 writes:
> This question seemed to me to be more appropriate for
> r-devel than for r-help. My apologies if this is not the
> case.
> Recently I installed ``cairo'' on my lap-top so that I
> could make use of the (newish) polypath() function, with
> on-screen graphics. (The polypath() function does not
> work with X11(type="Xlib").)
> The installation went smoothly, X11(type="cairo") works
> just fine, and polypath() works just fine.
> However the default "type" for X11() remains "Xlib" rather
> than "cairo".
> The help for X11.options() says (in respect of "type"):
> Default "cairo" where available and reliable,
> otherwise "Xlib".
> Now "cairo" is definitely available:
>> capabilities()["cairo"]
> cairo TRUE
> and moreover it works (just fine!) when I do
> X11(type="cairo") explicitly.
> I know that I can set the default to be "cairo" in my
> .Rprofile, but I am curious as to why "cairo" does not
> become the default automatically.
> Is it the case that "cairo" is ``not reliable'' under my
> system? It ***seems*** to be reliable.
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.13.1 Patched (2011-07-17 r56404) Platform:
> i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
> locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3]
> LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 [5]
> LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 [7]
> LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C
> LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> attached base packages: [1] datasets utils stats graphics
> grDevices methods base
> other attached packages: [1] misc_0.0-13 gtools_2.6.2
> spatstat_1.23-1 deldir_0.0-15 [5] mgcv_1.7-6
> fortunes_1.4-2 MASS_7.3-13
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] grid_2.13.1
> lattice_0.19-30 Matrix_0.999375-50 nlme_3.1-101
> cheers,
> Rolf Turner
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