I have two supposedly identical installations, one under Windows 95, and the other (at home) under Windows 98. The puzzle is that under my Windows 98 installation, symbols plotted by default or with pch come out huge, at about 2.2 times the height of the axis labels. Setting cex=0.5 seems about what is needed to fix the heights. On the Windows 95 installation, the symbols come out just a little smaller than the height of the axis labels. Unless someone has an immediate explanation, maybe I need to send a bug report from my home machine? A further point is that, contrary to the documentation of par(), the setting of mkh seems to have no effect on the height of symbols plotted with pch, e. g. plot(1:4,1:4,pch=1,mkh=0.2) John Maindonald email : john.maindonald at anu.edu.au Statistical Consulting Unit, phone : (6249)3998 c/o CMA, SMS, fax : (6249)5549 John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
John Maindonald <john.maindonald at anu.edu.au> writes:> I have two supposedly identical installations, one under Windows 95, > and the other (at home) under Windows 98. The puzzle is that under > my Windows 98 installation, symbols plotted by default or with pch > come out huge, at about 2.2 times the height of the axis labels. > Setting cex=0.5 seems about what is needed to fix the heights. > > On the Windows 95 installation, the symbols come out just a little > smaller than the height of the axis labels.Peculiar. They're supposed to be roughly the width of a "0" in the base font. The Postscript driver had a bug in the size calculations, in that it subtracted 18 pixels from the radius, but that wouldn't seem to be your problem if setting cex fixes things up. What does par("cra") and par("csi") say on your respective systems? (par("cra")[2]/par("csi") should be the dpi of your device)> Unless someone has an immediate explanation, maybe I need to send a > bug report from my home machine? > > A further point is that, contrary to the documentation of par(), > the > setting of mkh seems to have no effect on the height of symbols > plotted with pch, e. g. > plot(1:4,1:4,pch=1,mkh=0.2)Yes, I believe we already have a bug report to that effect. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- 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 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._