I had a typo in my original post, fixed below.
On Jul 26, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> This is not peculiar to Lion: it does seem something about Apple's X11
> notifier and I've seen it quite often over the years on Leopard ...
>
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Konis Kjell wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have just installed R 2.13.1 on a clean install of Lion on a 3 year old
>> iMac with a 2GHz Core 2 Duo. When I run R in the terminal and use the x11
>> device I get some strange behaviors when I call the dev.off() function. If I
>> plot several times then usually I get the error:
>>
>> Error in dev.off() : parameter "i" in "mfg" is out of range
>>
>> and if I plot only once I get the warning:
>>
>> Warning message:
>> In dev.off() : Display list redraw incomplete
>>
>> In both cases, a new x11 window opens (not exactly the expected result of
>> dev.off). Steps to reproduce both cases are given below.
>>
>> Also, it seems that the x11 device is not 3-4 times faster than the quartz
>> device. Has anyone else noticed this?
>
> Why would you expect it to be? X11(type='Xlib') is, but that is no longer
> the default on OS X.
Oops! That was supposed to say "the x11 device is now 3-4 times faster than
the quartz device." Anyway, here are the timings I get (I expected quartz to
be the fastest but not for any particular reason):
> x11(type = "Xlib")
> system.time(demo("graphics", echo = FALSE))
user system elapsed
0.191 0.025 0.496
> x11(type = "cairo")
> system.time(demo("graphics", echo = FALSE))
user system elapsed
19.223 9.757 42.559
> system.time(demo("graphics", echo = FALSE))
user system elapsed
0.716 1.290 5.626
> quartz()
> system.time(demo("graphics", echo = FALSE))
user system elapsed
0.778 0.045 0.861
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Kjell
>>
>> ## (re)start R ##
>>
>>> x11()
>>> system.time(demo("graphics", echo = FALSE))
>> user system elapsed
>> 0.213 0.025 0.517
>>> dev.off()
>> Error in dev.off() : parameter "i" in "mfg" is out of range
>>> dev.cur()
>> X11
>> 3
>>> dev.off()
>> null device
>> 1
>>> dev.cur()
>> null device
>> 1
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tools_2.13.1
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ## (re)start R ##
>>
>>> x11()
>>> plot(1:10)
>>> dev.off()
>> X11
>> 4
>> Warning message:
>> In dev.off() : Display list redraw incomplete
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.13.1 (2011-07-08)
>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>>>
>>
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>
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