R help - Aug 2006 - problem with postscript output of R-devel on Windows

I have developed a problem with the postscript output of plot on Windows. My
code still works properly with R 2.3 but, with R 2.4, the white text on red
background does not show up. It does, however, show up when output is sent to
the screen. Below is my code and sessionInfo.

R version 2.4.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-08-29 r39012) 
i386-pc-mingw32 

locale:
LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

attached base packages:
[1] "splines"   "tools"     "methods"  
"stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices"
"utils"     "datasets"
[9] "base"     

other attached packages:
  Rgraphviz geneplotter         XML     GOstats    Category    hgu95av2       
KEGG    multtest      xtable
   "1.11.9"    "1.11.8"    "0.99-8"    
"1.6.0"     "1.4.1"    "1.12.0"    
"1.8.1"    "1.11.2"     "1.3-2"
       RBGL    annotate          GO       graph       Ruuid       limma 
genefilter    survival     rat2302
    "1.8.1"    "1.11.5"     "1.6.5"  
"1.11.13"    "1.11.2"     "2.7.9"   
"1.11.8"      "2.28"    "1.12.0"
       affy      affyio     Biobase 
   "1.11.6"     "1.1.8"   "1.11.29"


fileName<-paste(experiment, contrast, "FDR", FDR,
"Graph", "ps", sep=".")
    postscript(file=fileName, paper="special",width=width,
height=height) #set up graphics device
    plot(result.gN, layout.param, nodeAttrs = nAttrs, edgeAttrs = eAttrs,
        main=paste(paste("Experiment:", experiment, "; 
Contrast:", contrast,";  FDR:", FDR, sep=""),
paste("Min. connections ==", min.edges, "Min. citations per
connection ==", min.cites, "Additional search criteria:",
            termAdditional, sep=" "), sep="    "))

Thanks,

Mark

Mark W. Kimpel MD 

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On 8/31/2006 11:27 AM, Kimpel, Mark William wrote:
> I have developed a problem with the postscript output of plot on Windows.
My code still works properly with R 2.3 but, with R 2.4, the white text on red
background does not show up. It does, however, show up when output is sent to
the screen. Below is my code and sessionInfo.
> 
> R version 2.4.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-08-29 r39012) 
> i386-pc-mingw32 
> 
> locale:
> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] "splines"   "tools"     "methods"  
"stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices"
"utils"     "datasets"
> [9] "base"     
> 
> other attached packages:
>   Rgraphviz geneplotter         XML     GOstats    Category    hgu95av2    
KEGG    multtest      xtable
>    "1.11.9"    "1.11.8"    "0.99-8"    
"1.6.0"     "1.4.1"    "1.12.0"    
"1.8.1"    "1.11.2"     "1.3-2"
>        RBGL    annotate          GO       graph       Ruuid       limma 
genefilter    survival     rat2302
>     "1.8.1"    "1.11.5"     "1.6.5"  
"1.11.13"    "1.11.2"     "2.7.9"   
"1.11.8"      "2.28"    "1.12.0"
>        affy      affyio     Biobase 
>    "1.11.6"     "1.1.8"   "1.11.29"
> 
> 
> fileName<-paste(experiment, contrast, "FDR", FDR,
"Graph", "ps", sep=".")
>     postscript(file=fileName, paper="special",width=width,
height=height) #set up graphics device
>     plot(result.gN, layout.param, nodeAttrs = nAttrs, edgeAttrs = eAttrs,
>         main=paste(paste("Experiment:", experiment, "; 
Contrast:", contrast,";  FDR:", FDR, sep=""),
paste("Min. connections ==", min.edges, "Min. citations per
connection ==", min.cites, "Additional search criteria:",
>             termAdditional, sep=" "), sep="    "))

Could you put together a reproducible example to illustrate the problem? 
  We don't have all the variables used in that example.  I think you 
should be able to do it with just base packages attached; if not, it's 
likely a problem with one of the contributed packages, rather than with R.

Duncan Murdoch