From Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>  Mon May 22 18:46:49 2000
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 18:46:49 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] text() with large cex parameter crashes X11() (PR#553)
Message-ID: <200005221746.SAA14454@toucan.stats.ox.ac.uk>


> From: plummer@iarc.fr
> Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 17:24:21 +0200 (MET DST)
> To: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [Rd] text() with large cex parameter crashes X11() (PR#553)
> CC: R-bugs@biostat.ku.dk
> X-Loop: R-bugs@biostat.ku.dk
> 
> Trying to use text() with very large cex parameter crashes
> R when using the X11() device
> 
> X11()
> plot(1,1,type="n")
> text(1,1,"foo", cex=10)
> 
> This also crashes R
> 
> points(1,1,pch="A", cex=10)
> 
> presumably because we are trying to load a font that doesn't
> exist, but I haven't looked into it.

As a matter of interest, does it crash R-devel?  I added some X11 error
handlers a couple of weeks ago, so X11 errors should no longer crash R.

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[Rd] text() with large cex parameter crashes X11() (PR#553)
Prof Brian Ripley