John, Thanks for the suggestion, but no. I have even gone so far as to rebuild R from source, re-booted my computer, and tried the 'experiment':
require(stats) plot(cars) immediately after starting R. Still the same result. I think it must be related to some default Ubuntu Unity window manager default I can't sort out. Regards, Tom On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:14 AM, John Kane <jrkrid...@inbox.com> wrote: > Any chance that you made an earlier call to par() resetting cex in your > session? I just had that happen. > > John Kane > Kingston ON Canada > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: tea...@gmail.com > > Sent: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:15:33 -0400 > > To: r-help@r-project.org > > Subject: [R] Odd graphic device behavior > > > > I'm experiencing odd graphics device behavior running R 2.15.3 on Ubuntu. > > Regardless of what I try like: > > > > require(stats) > > plot(cars) > > lines(lowess(cars)) > > plot(sin, -pi, 2*pi) > > > > for example, the graphics device fills the entire screen with the graphic > > and a very large font. When I shrink the graphics device window, the > > lettering remains large and the line thicknesses stay quite thick. It may > > have been some time since I have done any R work on my Ubuntu computer, > > but > > clearly this did not happen previously. > > > > Does anyone have any thoughts? > > > > Thank you, > > Tom > > > > [[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. > > ____________________________________________________________ > FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER - Watch dolphins, sharks & orcas on > your desktop! > Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/marineaquarium > > > [[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.