[R] NULL dev.lis()

[peter dalgaard]

On 09 Nov 2015, at 11:10 , Pascal Oettli via R-help <r-help at r-project.org> wrote:

> Martin,
> 
> Sorry, but what are you talking about ? Of course I know it is normal
> to get this result. It is what I explained in my message!

And Martin agreed/confirmed. Notice that "you" in English does not necessarily refer to you, personally...

-pd

> 
> Regards,
> Pascal
> 
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Martin Maechler
> <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
>>>>>>> Pascal Oettli via R-help <r-help at r-project.org>
>>>>>>>    on Mon, 9 Nov 2015 14:18:37 +0900 writes:
>> 
>>> Dear Tom,
>>> Running R 3.2.2 on Ubuntu 15.04, if I run dev.list(), I get NULL.
>> 
>> Yes, indeed with all "regular" / "default" versions of R.
>> 
>> I you don't get that, you must have set something user-specific,
>> or possibly site-specific if you have a particularly customized site
>> maintainer setup.
>> 
>> Read
>>   ?Startup
>>   ?options
>> 
>> etc.
>> 
>>> 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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>>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>>> --
>>> Pascal Oettli
>>> Project Scientist
>>> JAMSTEC
>>> Yokohama, Japan
>> 
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> 
> 
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> Pascal Oettli
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> JAMSTEC
> Yokohama, Japan
> 
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