R devel - Sep 2017 - y label for X11 graphics

In the following plot, the y label is missing if it is too long.

x11(type="Xlib")
plot(1:5, 1:5, ylab="Do, a deer, a female deer")   # missing label
plot(1:5, 1:5, ylab="Do")                          # label is present

All is well for x11(type="cairo")

This is true both under R devel 2017-09-01 on xubuntu (my desktop), and 3.4.1 on
Centos
6.9 (department servers).


A minor question is why my locally compiled version defaults to Xlib rather than
cairo,
since both work as explicit arguments to the x11() command.

Terry T.

Sorry, can't reproduce on ...

 > sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib/libblas/libblas.so.3.0
LAPACK: /usr/lib/lapack/liblapack.so.3.0

locale:
  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
  [3] LC_TIME=en_NZ.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.UTF-8
  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_NZ.UTF-8
  [7] LC_PAPER=en_NZ.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.4.1

... or on ...

 > sessionInfo()
R Under development (unstable) (2017-09-12 r73246)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /home/pmur002/R/r-devel/BUILD/lib/libRblas.so
LAPACK: /home/pmur002/R/r-devel/BUILD/lib/libRlapack.so

locale:
  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
  [3] LC_TIME=en_NZ.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.UTF-8
  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_NZ.UTF-8
  [7] LC_PAPER=en_NZ.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.5.0

Paul

On 14/09/17 04:03, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. wrote:
> In the following plot, the y label is missing if it is too long.
> 
> x11(type="Xlib")
> plot(1:5, 1:5, ylab="Do, a deer, a female deer")   # missing
label
> plot(1:5, 1:5, ylab="Do")                          # label is
present
> 
> All is well for x11(type="cairo")
> 
> This is true both under R devel 2017-09-01 on xubuntu (my desktop), and 
> 3.4.1 on Centos 6.9 (department servers).
> 
> 
> A minor question is why my locally compiled version defaults to Xlib 
> rather than cairo, since both work as explicit arguments to the x11() 
> command.
> 
> Terry T.
> 
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Family matters have kept me away, I'm finally coming back to this thread.

In summary, this is an issue with a particular workstation, not with R. 
Graphics with
X11(type="Xlib") have a y label problem when displayed on this
particular box, whether
using R locally or from a server via ssh -X.  The same server's output is
fine on another
machine in the department.

I remain mildly curious as to why, but not enough to dig in since
X11(type='cairo')
displays without issue.  I first noticed this in R-devel which prompted my
"bug report".
Sorry for the noise and thanks for the responses which pointed me in the right
direction.

Terry T.