Dear Niall, > On Apr 20, 2020, at 3:42 PM, ANDERSON Niall <niall.ander...@ed.ac.uk> wrote: > > Dear all, > > I’m relatively new to MacOS and have only recently started trying to use > XQuartz to enable me to run Rcmdr. Are there any common issues/ tips for > getting good performance out of it (or should it usually run well with > default settings)? > > On first installation, I found there was a very long lag in menus being > populated (i.e. the menu shape was generated, but no usable options were > added), to the extent that Rcmdr was then effectively useless (not Rcmdr’s > fault, I don’t think). One of my students suggested reducing Output Colors > option from the default “Millions” setting. That seems to deal with the > problem, thankfully. > > Is that typical of XQuartz, and is there anything else I should be doing to > get the best performance from it?
I haven't observed the problem you describe on my Mac, which is a three- or four-year-old MacBook Pro (that is, the Rcmdr dialogs display reasonably crisply for me), and I haven't done anything special to configure XQuartz. Here are the specs for my Mac: Model Name: MacBook Pro Model Identifier: MacBookPro13,2 Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Core i7 Processor Speed: 3.3 GHz Number of Processors: 1 Total Number of Cores: 2 L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 4 MB Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled Memory: 8 GB It might help to have some more information. I assume that you're using the most recent versions of R, the Rcmdr package, and other packages, and a recent version of macOS. What Mac do you have, and did you reboot it after installing XQuartz? If you updated R, did you reinstall XQuartz? Best, John ----------------------------- John Fox, Professor Emeritus McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Web: http::/socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox > > Thanks, > > Niall Anderson > > > ________________________________ > > Dr Niall H. Anderson | Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics/ Programme > Co-director, MPH (on campus) > > Room G113B, Doorway 1 > Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh > Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG > > niall.ander...@ed.ac.uk | +44 (0)131 650 3212 | Skype = live:niall.h.anderson > > Responses to emails are only expected during your working hours > <image001.png> > www.ed.ac.uk/usher | @EdinUniUsher > > <image002.png> > > > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, > with registration number SC005336. > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
