thank you. what threw me off was reading in ?quartz that Calling 'quartz()' sets '.Device' to '"quartz"' for on-scren devices and to '"quartz_off_screen"' otherwise.
[note minor typo in "scren"] so I incorrectly thought I had to tinker with .Device. (?dev.new left me confused; it was ?options with "/Device" that finally got me to understand that all that was required is the following: options(device="quartz"). in my ~/.Rprofile . thanks again. /iaw On Mar 1, 2009 7:52am, Prof Brian Ripley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, [email protected] wrote: > Dear R-experts: I would like to set the default drawing device to be > quartz, not X11. I understand that "quartz()" accomplishes this, but it > also draws an empty window. Assigning "quartz" to .Device does not do the > trick, either. > Of course: see what its help says it does (and note what it says about > where those symbols are, so you assigned to a different variable of that > name). > I read earlier postings in this group, but did not discover > the ultimately recommended way to do this. > It's not Mac-specific, it is an option() on all platforms. Eg ?dev.new > would have got you there. See ?options and look for 'device'. > May I also ask why quartz is not the default on Mac to begin with? (would > anyone really prefer the X11 device if quartz is available?) > Yes, some would. Eg quartz() will plot on the Mac screen, even when I've > logged in from another machine -- only convenient if they are > side-by-side (and something I have done whilst debugging the quartz() > device). There are also some odd font issues with quartz() that using > X11() can circumvent. > Normally quartz() is the default if you use the R.app GUI, X11() > otherwise *if* DISPLAY is set. And BTW, the choice of default is a lot > more complicated than you make out: see src/library/grDevices/R/zzz.R . > I think this is a legacy of the time that a Mac terminal did not set > DISPLAY, but now it does it is unclear whether the user wants to use it > or not. > /iaw > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [email protected] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
