Thanks for the feedback folks. On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Gábor Csárdi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
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