[R] NULL dev.lis()

[Pascal Oettli]

Dear Tom,

Running R 3.2.2 on Ubuntu 15.04, if I run dev.list(), I get NULL. And
I guess it is the expected behavior, as per the help page, it "returns
the numbers of all open devices, except device 1, the null device".
So, if I run

x11()
dev.list()

I get

X11cairo
       2

HTH,
Pascal

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Thomas Adams <tea3rd at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I have previous built R from source many times, generally, without
> problems. However on my new Ubuntu 15.04 Linux system with R 3.2.2 when I
> run the command dev.list() I get:
>
>> dev.list()
> NULL
>
> At the completion of running ./configure, I have
>
> R is now configured for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>
>   Source directory:          .
>   Installation directory:    /usr/local
>
>   C compiler:                gcc -std=gnu99  -g -O2
>   Fortran 77 compiler:       gfortran  -g -O2
>
>   C++ compiler:              g++  -g -O2
>   C++ 11 compiler:           g++  -std=c++11 -g -O2
>   Fortran 90/95 compiler:    gfortran -g -O2
>   Obj-C compiler:
>
>   Interfaces supported:      X11
>   External libraries:        readline, zlib, lzma, PCRE, curl
>   Additional capabilities:   PNG, JPEG, TIFF, NLS, cairo, ICU
>   Options enabled:           shared BLAS, R profiling
>
>   Capabilities skipped:
>   Options not enabled:       memory profiling
>
>   Recommended packages:      yes
>
> This issue is causing me problems with spplot, which I have posted on
> r-sig-geo. R and the display of all other graphics seems to be fine,
> otherwise. My previous installations of R would yield:
>
>> dev.list()
> X11cairo
>        2
>
> And I had no problems with spplot. Any thoughts?
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
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Pascal Oettli
Project Scientist
JAMSTEC
Yokohama, Japan