I think the issue is likely that you seem to be using a relative path to
the R_MAKEVARS_USER file, it needs to be an absolute path as the
installation is run in a temporary directory not from the directory you
call `R CMD INSTALL` from.
I observed similar behavior to what you describe when I had th
I'm working on a graphics device in a R package, and need to set some
graphical parameters for
text / labels on the devices as they are initialized or reset.
This feature is described in R Internals:
> The three copies of the GPar structure are used to store the current
> parameters (accessed vi
