Re: [R] figure margins too large in RGtk2 drawing area as cairo device - why?
Thanks, Peter. I did the following: restart R and run the same code with and without a minimal system pause (Sys.sleep) after the line that adds the device to the GTK window. Adding a pause will make it work, though I do not understand what is happening here. Note the different settings of par(din). This is probably not the expected behavior, I guess. Any ideas why this is the case? It seems as if din is not adjusted on time? Might that be? library(RGtk2) library(cairoDevice) win = gtkWindow() da = gtkDrawingArea() asCairoDevice(da) [1] TRUE win$add(da) plot(1:10) Fehler in plot.new() : Grafikränder zu groß par(c(din, mai)) $din [1] 0.0139 0.0139 $mai [1] 0.7791667 0.6263889 0.6263889 0.3208333 win = gtkWindow() da = gtkDrawingArea() asCairoDevice(da) [1] TRUE win$add(da) Sys.sleep(.1) plot(1:10) par(c(din, mai)) $din [1] 2.78 2.78 $mai [1] 0.7791667 0.6263889 0.6263889 0.3208333 Thanks in advance --- Mark Am 09.03.2012 um 00:01 schrieb peter dalgaard: On Mar 8, 2012, at 23:25 , Mark Heckmann wrote: Peter, thanks for the answer! Indeed, it does work if I set par(mar=c(0,0,0,0)) but not when it is set to the default values mar=c(5.1, 4.1, 4.1, 2.1). The par settings returned in the example are the defaults, so no extraordinary big mar settings or char size (see below). Also, it does not matter what size the drawing area is set to (e.g. 1000x 1000). The error always occurs. Any idea? The other parameters... What about din and mai? The margin problem usually means that the sum of the relevant margins is bigger than the device size. E.g. quartz() par(mai=rep(4,4)) plot(0) Error in plot.new() : figure margins too large examples: win = gtkWindow() da = gtkDrawingArea() win$add(da) asCairoDevice(da) [1] TRUE par(c(mar, cra, oma)) $mar [1] 5.1 4.1 4.1 2.1 $cra [1] 7 11 $oma [1] 0 0 0 0 plot(1:10) Fehler in plot.new() : Grafikränder zu groß ###ERROR### Thanks Mark Am 08.03.2012 um 22:48 schrieb peter dalgaard: On Mar 8, 2012, at 20:27 , Mark Heckmann wrote: When using a gtkDrawingArea as a Cairo device I very often encounter the error: figure margins too large Even for the below getting started example from http://www.ggobi.org/rgtk2/ this is the case. win = gtkWindow() da = gtkDrawingArea() win$add(da) asCairoDevice(da) [1] TRUE plot(1:10) Fehler in plot.new() : Grafikränder zu groß Also enlarging the drawing area does not help. win = gtkWindow() da = gtkDrawingArea() win$add(da) asCairoDevice(da) [1] TRUE da$setSizeRequest(700, 700) plot(1:10) Fehler in plot.new() : Grafikränder zu groß Any ideas? I'd check the par() settings for the device. Especially mar/mai and cra/cin to see whether margins are set unusually large and/or character sizes are unusually big, but check help(par) yourself. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com Mark Heckmann Blog: www.markheckmann.de R-Blog: http://ryouready.wordpress.com -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com Mark Heckmann Blog: www.markheckmann.de R-Blog: http://ryouready.wordpress.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] figure margins too large in RGtk2 drawing area as cairo device - why?
Hi Mark, This comes down to the way that GTK+ allocates size to its widgets. The allocation of a widget is initialized to have a width and height of 1. When a child is added to a visible parent, the parent will execute its lay out algorithm and allocate a certain amount of space to the widget. The widget is notified of this change via an event that arrives after an iteration of the event loop. An event loop iteration may be forced in a number of ways; you've discovered the Sys.sleep() method. However, it is generally not good practice to show a container before adding its children, unless widgets are being added in the middle of a session, which is rare. If you were to instead do something like this: win = gtkWindow(show = FALSE) win$setDefaultSize(500, 500) da = gtkDrawingArea() asCairoDevice(da) win$add(da) win$showAll() plot(1:10) Then GTK+ will correctly initialize the allocation of the widget, I think even before a configure event is received. The above approach is my recommended solution to your problem. Thanks, Michael On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:39 AM, Mark Heckmann mark.heckm...@gmx.de wrote: Thanks, Peter. I did the following: restart R and run the same code with and without a minimal system pause (Sys.sleep) after the line that adds the device to the GTK window. Adding a pause will make it work, though I do not understand what is happening here. Note the different settings of par(din). This is probably not the expected behavior, I guess. Any ideas why this is the case? It seems as if din is not adjusted on time? Might that be? library(RGtk2) library(cairoDevice) win = gtkWindow() da = gtkDrawingArea() asCairoDevice(da) [1] TRUE win$add(da) plot(1:10) Fehler in plot.new() : Grafikränder zu groß par(c(din, mai)) $din [1] 0.0139 0.0139 $mai [1] 0.7791667 0.6263889 0.6263889 0.3208333 win = gtkWindow() da = gtkDrawingArea() asCairoDevice(da) [1] TRUE win$add(da) Sys.sleep(.1) plot(1:10) par(c(din, mai)) $din [1] 2.78 2.78 $mai [1] 0.7791667 0.6263889 0.6263889 0.3208333 Thanks in advance --- Mark Am 09.03.2012 um 00:01 schrieb peter dalgaard: On Mar 8, 2012, at 23:25 , Mark Heckmann wrote: Peter, thanks for the answer! Indeed, it does work if I set par(mar=c(0,0,0,0)) but not when it is set to the default values mar=c(5.1, 4.1, 4.1, 2.1). The par settings returned in the example are the defaults, so no extraordinary big mar settings or char size (see below). Also, it does not matter what size the drawing area is set to (e.g. 1000x 1000). The error always occurs. Any idea? The other parameters... What about din and mai? The margin problem usually means that the sum of the relevant margins is bigger than the device size. E.g. quartz() par(mai=rep(4,4)) plot(0) Error in plot.new() : figure margins too large examples: win = gtkWindow() da = gtkDrawingArea() win$add(da) asCairoDevice(da) [1] TRUE par(c(mar, cra, oma)) $mar [1] 5.1 4.1 4.1 2.1 $cra [1] 7 11 $oma [1] 0 0 0 0 plot(1:10) Fehler in plot.new() : Grafikränder zu groß ###ERROR### Thanks Mark Am 08.03.2012 um 22:48 schrieb peter dalgaard: On Mar 8, 2012, at 20:27 , Mark Heckmann wrote: When using a gtkDrawingArea as a Cairo device I very often encounter the error: figure margins too large Even for the below getting started example from http://www.ggobi.org/rgtk2/ this is the case. win = gtkWindow() da = gtkDrawingArea() win$add(da) asCairoDevice(da) [1] TRUE plot(1:10) Fehler in plot.new() : Grafikränder zu groß Also enlarging the drawing area does not help. win = gtkWindow() da = gtkDrawingArea() win$add(da) asCairoDevice(da) [1] TRUE da$setSizeRequest(700, 700) plot(1:10) Fehler in plot.new() : Grafikränder zu groß Any ideas? I'd check the par() settings for the device. Especially mar/mai and cra/cin to see whether margins are set unusually large and/or character sizes are unusually big, but check help(par) yourself. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com Mark Heckmann Blog: www.markheckmann.de R-Blog: http://ryouready.wordpress.com -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com Mark Heckmann Blog: www.markheckmann.de R-Blog: http://ryouready.wordpress.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
[R] figure margins too large in RGtk2 drawing area as cairo device - why?
When using a gtkDrawingArea as a Cairo device I very often encounter the error: figure margins too large Even for the below getting started example from http://www.ggobi.org/rgtk2/ this is the case. win = gtkWindow() da = gtkDrawingArea() win$add(da) asCairoDevice(da) [1] TRUE plot(1:10) Fehler in plot.new() : Grafikränder zu groß Also enlarging the drawing area does not help. win = gtkWindow() da = gtkDrawingArea() win$add(da) asCairoDevice(da) [1] TRUE da$setSizeRequest(700, 700) plot(1:10) Fehler in plot.new() : Grafikränder zu groß Any ideas? Thanks in advance. --Mark PS. My system: R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22) Platform: i386-apple-darwin9.8.0/i386 (32-bit) MacOS 10.6 Mark Heckmann Blog: www.markheckmann.de R-Blog: http://ryouready.wordpress.com __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] figure margins too large in RGtk2 drawing area as cairo device - why?
On Mar 8, 2012, at 20:27 , Mark Heckmann wrote: When using a gtkDrawingArea as a Cairo device I very often encounter the error: figure margins too large Even for the below getting started example from http://www.ggobi.org/rgtk2/ this is the case. win = gtkWindow() da = gtkDrawingArea() win$add(da) asCairoDevice(da) [1] TRUE plot(1:10) Fehler in plot.new() : Grafikränder zu groß Also enlarging the drawing area does not help. win = gtkWindow() da = gtkDrawingArea() win$add(da) asCairoDevice(da) [1] TRUE da$setSizeRequest(700, 700) plot(1:10) Fehler in plot.new() : Grafikränder zu groß Any ideas? I'd check the par() settings for the device. Especially mar/mai and cra/cin to see whether margins are set unusually large and/or character sizes are unusually big, but check help(par) yourself. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] figure margins too large in RGtk2 drawing area as cairo device - why?
Peter, thanks for the answer! Indeed, it does work if I set par(mar=c(0,0,0,0)) but not when it is set to the default values mar=c(5.1, 4.1, 4.1, 2.1). The par settings returned in the example are the defaults, so no extraordinary big mar settings or char size (see below). Also, it does not matter what size the drawing area is set to (e.g. 1000x 1000). The error always occurs. Any idea? examples: win = gtkWindow() da = gtkDrawingArea() win$add(da) asCairoDevice(da) [1] TRUE par(c(mar, cra, oma)) $mar [1] 5.1 4.1 4.1 2.1 $cra [1] 7 11 $oma [1] 0 0 0 0 plot(1:10) Fehler in plot.new() : Grafikränder zu groß ###ERROR### Thanks Mark Am 08.03.2012 um 22:48 schrieb peter dalgaard: On Mar 8, 2012, at 20:27 , Mark Heckmann wrote: When using a gtkDrawingArea as a Cairo device I very often encounter the error: figure margins too large Even for the below getting started example from http://www.ggobi.org/rgtk2/ this is the case. win = gtkWindow() da = gtkDrawingArea() win$add(da) asCairoDevice(da) [1] TRUE plot(1:10) Fehler in plot.new() : Grafikränder zu groß Also enlarging the drawing area does not help. win = gtkWindow() da = gtkDrawingArea() win$add(da) asCairoDevice(da) [1] TRUE da$setSizeRequest(700, 700) plot(1:10) Fehler in plot.new() : Grafikränder zu groß Any ideas? I'd check the par() settings for the device. Especially mar/mai and cra/cin to see whether margins are set unusually large and/or character sizes are unusually big, but check help(par) yourself. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com Mark Heckmann Blog: www.markheckmann.de R-Blog: http://ryouready.wordpress.com __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
