Thank you Peter, that sounds pretty reasonable. Best, Tom
On Friday, March 29, 2013, peter dalgaard wrote: > > On Mar 28, 2013, at 22:27 , Thomas Adams wrote: > > > All, > > > > Well to my relief and embarrassment, I discovered my problem. About 5 > weeks > > ago, I shutdown my computer and moved it. When I reconnected everything I > > apparently plugged my HDMI monitor into the 'wrong' output port without > > realizing it. So, on a whim, just now, I made the switch to the other > port > > and presto changeo -- problem solved!! The odd thing was, besides my R > > graphics device window problems, everything else was fine... > > > > Out of curiosity, can anyone explain this? > > My best guess is that the pixel resolution was taken from the disconnected > primary display and set to some safe standard value like 640x480, > miscalculating the dimensions of your display, so that it ended up with > huge "virtual inches". > > The reason everything else didn't notice could be that they work in pixel > units rather than physical units. > > (There seems to be no really perfect solution to the problem of setting > default dimensions: Pixel count gives stamp-sized graphs on hi-res > displays, physical dimensions are meaningless on projectors and not really > what you want on a tiny screen, and percent of display area is "undue > imperialism" if you have a large monitor, intending to overlook many > windows at once.) > > > > > Thanks for all the help... > > > > Tom > > > > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Thomas Adams > > <tea...@gmail.com<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > >> Luca, > >> > >> Thank you for the suggestion; I do have an Nvidia graphics card and I am > >> using the Nvida driver; still searching for a solution, quite odd... > >> > >> Tom > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Luca Nanetti > >> <luca.nane...@gmail.com<javascript:;> > >wrote: > >> > >>> Thomas, > >>> any chance that you could have problems with your graphic driver? For > >>> instance, if you have an Nvidia graphic card, I would recommend > switching > >>> from the 'nouveau' driver to the official Nvidia one. > >>> > >>> Kind regards, > >>> luca > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org <javascript:;> 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. > > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk <javascript:;> Priv: pda...@gmail.com <javascript:;> > > > > > > > > > -- Thomas E Adams, III 718 McBurney Drive Lebanon, OH 45036 1 (513) 739-9512 (cell) [[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.
