You can specify this by environment variables. Note that R.app (as all OS X apps) does not use values set in .bashrc / .profile, so the easiest way is to put the following into your ~/.Rprofile file (create it, if needed);
Sys.setenv("R_INTERACTIVE_DEVICE" = "x11") Sys.setenv("R_DEFAULT_DEVICE" = "pdf") This will use pdf as the plotting device when you run R CMD BATCH and it will use X11 as device when you are in an interactive session. Now, I don't know much about plotmath and the quartz device, but note that I and many others vastly prefer the quartz device on the Mac, for its very nice output (and I like its history feature). But you seem to have a need for X11.... Kasper On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Carlo Tambuatco <oraclmas...@gmail.com> wrote: > EDIT: > > Okay, it seems that X11 renders the fonts etc...okay > > Typing in: > > X11() > demo(plotmath) > dev.off() > > seemed to render everything including the fonts fine, so I don't think any of > my fonts are corrupted. > > But is there a way to configure R to set X11 as the default device for > graphics? Right now, it uses quartz as its default device for rendering to > the screen. I'm a bit of a newbie here, so could somebody explain how to add > to my R config file to have the default device be X11? > > > > On Jul 1, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Marc Schwartz wrote: > >> On Jul 1, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Carlo Tambuatco wrote: >> >>> I noticed this running a few graphics demos the other day. >>> >>> In particular the plotmath and the persp graphics demos, certain fonts >>> don't seem to render on the demos. >>> >>> The plotmath demo displays certain math equations on a quartz window >>> that don't render properly, and the persp demo displays a 3D model of >>> a mountain with labels on the graph rendered in a certain font. (None >>> of the data labels render at all.) >>> >>> This problem appeared recently, (like last week), and has not happened >>> before. I'm fairly new to using the R gui and R in general, so I don't >>> really know where to check if I have the proper true type fonts >>> available on my computer or if it is a problem within R itself. This >>> doesn't appear to be a problem with the functioning of R itself, just >>> an inability for it to render certain fonts on graphical displays. I >>> just want to fix it now before I use it in a major project that >>> requires the rendering of fonts onto the screen for presentations >>> etc... >> >> >> You might want to review this reply by Simon to a similar post recently: >> >> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-mac/2010-June/007531.html >> >> Another resource that might be relevant: >> >> http://www.maclife.com/article/news/howto_clear_your_macs_font_cache >> >> HTH, >> >> Marc Schwartz >> > > For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get > themselves filed. > - Clifton Fadiman > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac