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The logic for selecting the default screen device on OS X has been simplified: it is now ‘quartz()’ if that is available even if environment variable ‘DISPLAY’ has been set by the user.
The choice can easily be overridden _via_ environment variable ‘R_INTERACTIVE_DEVICE’.
Modifying slots of S4 objects could fail when the ‘methods’ package was not attached (PR#16545).