R devel - Mar 2024 - paths capability FALSE on devel?

Hi all,

I don't know if it is a local issue on my hands or not, but after
installing R-devel the output of grDevices::dev.capabilities()$paths is
FALSE, while it is TRUE for R 4.3.3.
Relatedly, I have issues with plotting paths on devel.

At this stage, I simply would like to know if others running R devel and R
4.3.3 can replicate this behaviour and if there are obvious reasons why the
observed change would be expected.

Man thanks,

Alex
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Alexandre Courtiol, www.datazoogang.de

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On 27/03/2024 10:28, Alexandre Courtiol wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I don't know if it is a local issue on my hands or not, but after
> installing R-devel the output of grDevices::dev.capabilities()$paths is
> FALSE, while it is TRUE for R 4.3.3.
> Relatedly, I have issues with plotting paths on devel.
> 
> At this stage, I simply would like to know if others running R devel and R
> 4.3.3 can replicate this behaviour and if there are obvious reasons why the
> observed change would be expected.
The help says

      Query the capabilities of the current graphics device.

You haven't told us what that was.  See the posting guide for the "at a
minimum" information you also did not provide ....


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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford

? Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:28:17 +0100
Alexandre Courtiol <alexandre.courtiol at gmail.com> ?????:
> after installing R-devel the output of
> grDevices::dev.capabilities()$paths is FALSE, while it is TRUE for R
> 4.3.3
Your system must be missing Cairo development headers, making x11()
fall back to type = 'Xlib':

$ R-devel -q -s -e 'x11(); grDevices::dev.capabilities()$paths'
 [1] TRUE
$ R-devel -q -s -e \
 'x11(type="Xlib"); grDevices::dev.capabilities()$paths'
 [1] FALSE

If that's not the case and capabilities()['cairo'] is TRUE in your
build of R-devel, please show us the sessionInfo() from your build of
R-devel.

-- 
Best regards,
Ivan