[R] X11 plot window doesn't show graphic immediately

[Alexander Engelhardt]

Hi Ista,

thanks for your advice. I updated my .Rprofile file with the following 
two lines:

require(grDevices)
X11.options(type="nbcairo")

Everything works fine now.

Best wishes,
  Alex

On 01/13/2013 02:26 AM, Ista Zahn wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
>
> Try changing your type, e.g.,  X11.options(type="nbcairo"). See ?X11
> for details, and
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13235100/empty-plot-in-r for
> reference.
>
> Best,
> Ista
>
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Alexander Engelhardt
> <alex at chaotic-neutral.de> wrote:
>> Hi r-help,
>>
>> I have a weird problem. When I plot anything, say plot(1:10), a plot window
>> opens but it's empty. It looks just like this:
>>
>> http://i.imgur.com/9uqO6.png
>>
>> I have to resize the window, either by clicking the fullscreen icon on the
>> menu bar, or by dragging the borders. Then the plot is shown, but strangely
>> in the original size of the window, where it was before the resize:
>>
>> http://i.imgur.com/tXcop.png
>>
>> Then, when I resize to shrink the window back, the plot is shown too big,
>> how it would have fit in the previously resized window:
>>
>> http://i.imgur.com/mBUo7.png
>>
>> So it seems like the windows displays everything with a resize lag of 1,
>> i.e. according to the previous resize. Erm...
>>
>> Some possibly helpful info:
>> - I am on Arch Linux
>> - R version 2.15.2
>> - It happens on two different computers (both Arch Linux)
>> - It happens when starting R from the console or from within Emacs
>> - plotting to a pdf("some.pdf") works fine
>>
>> I have no idea where to search for the cause of that. Did anyone encounter
>> this or have any idea where this might come from? Pointers to where to look
>> for the cause are welcome too.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>   Alex
>>
>> ______________________________________________
>> R-help at 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.