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Troubleshooting

2024-11-19

Source: vignettes/troubleshooting.Rmd
troubleshooting.Rmd

Troubleshooting

Installation

If init_starsim() fails, try creating your own Python environment (via conda or miniconda), installing Starsim manually, and then calling load_starsim() with an argument. For example, if your custom conda environment is called r-starsim, you would use:

Plotting

  • If plots don’t appear, try plt$show() after calling plot(), or set ss$options(reticulate=True) before plotting.
  • If the plots don’t appear and they cause RStudio to crash, either set the backend to Agg (Tools > General Options > General > Graphics > Backend), or call X11() somewhere in your script before calling plot().
  • If plots appear but the scaling is wrong (e.g. the text is colliding), you can either (a) zoom out in RStudio (this changes the inferred scaling factor), or (b) change the default font size with e.g. sc$options(fontsize=6) (note sc = Sciris rather than ss = Starsim).
  • If all else fails, plotting seems to work better from VS Code than RStudio.