loading ggplot2 (colorspace, actually) opens up x11

Question

Whenever I so much as load ggplot2, X11 jumps into action (hogging resources).

library(ggplot2)

Is what I do, and boom – X11

The thing is, I don't want to use X11, nor do I want it to be open – I want to use Quartz and the build-in graphics in RStudio.

Whenever I close X11, so goes my R session.

My setup:

• OS X Yosemite 10.10.2
• R 3.1.2
• Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
• ggplot 1.0.0
• XQuartz 2.7.7 (xorg-server 1.15.2)
• OS X also recently (yesterday?) updated the Command Line Tools to 6.2

This problem occurs:

• In RStudio
• using a ST3 REPL package
• the R console

How did I mess this up, and how I can I stop this madness?

Update: Turns out (see comments), the package colorspace in version 1.2-5 is at fault, not ggplot2.

Update: The problem seems to be solved as of colorspace version 1.2-6.

Answer 1

As mentioned in the comments and the github issue in the ggplot2 page, this is cause by the package colorspace version "1.2-5". You can wait to a new version of the package with a fix. Or, a temporary solution is to install a previous version of colorspace. If you have the devtools package installed you can easily do:

library(devtools)
install_version("colorspace", "1.2-4")