On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Grant Rettke <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Colin A. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> First, it seems that under Yosemite, the default device is now x11 instead >> of quartz. > > Just curious, why do you prefer the quartz device over the x11 device on OSX? > > Starting out with quartz, I got a lot of crashes with R from homebrew > (15 times in a row using base plotting) and when I switched to x11 the > crashes stopped.
That's probably just your system or homebrew R. I have been using quartz as a default device on various machines and OSX versions for many years now, and never had a single crash. As for the reason, the quartz device looks *much* nicer than the x11 device, probably because of the (better) anti-aliasing. Also, you do not need to run an X server to use it. Gabor > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
