Colleagues--
I'm having a problem upgrading to R 1.5.0 on a Windows 98 computer. The
windows() graphics device seems to behave strangely. A call to windows()
opens an active graphics device, as does a call to a plotting function,
e.e. plot(1:5,1:5). So far so good. When I click on the Printer icon
(with the graphics device active) nothing happens. Likewise when I use
win.print() from the console window. The image prints if I exit R, which
I presume flushes a buffer. If I've attempted to print several plots
during an R 1.5.0 session then only the last such attempt actually prints
when I exit (although I'm not certain about the consistany of this
behavior-- I've tried so many combinations of icon clicking and
win.print()'ing that I've apparently flushed the buffer in other ways,
e.g. by killing and restarting the graphics device (I think). Anyway, no
such strange behavior from R 1.4.1 on the same machine.
Is this a known issue? I haven't seen any mention of it on r-help. Is
there additional information I can provide to help resolve the problem?
--Mike C.
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Michael Camann wrote:> > Colleagues-- > > I'm having a problem upgrading to R 1.5.0 on a Windows 98 computer. The > windows() graphics device seems to behave strangely. A call to windows() > opens an active graphics device, as does a call to a plotting function, > e.e. plot(1:5,1:5). So far so good. When I click on the Printer icon > (with the graphics device active) nothing happens. Likewise when I use > win.print() from the console window.That's the same user error I ran into every time I try it. Read the docs: win.print() opens a device. You have to close it after plotting with dev.off()> The image prints if I exit R, which > I presume flushes a buffer. If I've attempted to print several plots > during an R 1.5.0 session then only the last such attempt actually prints > when I exit (although I'm not certain about the consistany of this > behavior-- I've tried so many combinations of icon clicking and > win.print()'ing that I've apparently flushed the buffer in other ways, > e.g. by killing and restarting the graphics device (I think). Anyway, no > such strange behavior from R 1.4.1 on the same machine. > > Is this a known issue?Yes, the printer icon one. It is fixed in R-patched. I think Windows binaries of a fixed release are somewhere on Brian Ripley's pages. Where exactly was mentioned by himself a few weeks ago on R-help, you'll find it by searching the archives...> I haven't seen any mention of it on r-help. Is > there additional information I can provide to help resolve the problem?Uwe Ligges -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
>I'm having a problem upgrading to R 1.5.0 on a Windows 98 computer. The >windows() graphics device seems to behave strangely.This is a known problem. Brian Ripley compiled a patched version to fix this; it is available as described here: http://www.r-project.org/nocvs/mail/r-help/2002/3973.html Duncan Murdoch -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._