dmurdoch@pair.com
2003-Dec-18 19:17 UTC
[Rd] Re: [R] R GUI dies using postcript() in Windows XP Pro (PR#5910)
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 18:02:07 +0000, Gavin Simpson <gavin.simpson@ucl.ac.uk> wrote :>Dear List, > >My colleague has been having a problem with the following data and >plotting commands. The example below is part of a larger set of plots, >but I've isolated the problem to this example using this small dataset >(below), which kills rgui consistently. My version info > > > version > _ >platform i386-pc-mingw32 >arch i386 >os mingw32 >system i386, mingw32 >status >major 1 >minor 8.0 >year 2003 >month 10 >day 08 >language R > >But this also happens in 1.8.1 on Windows XP ProI just tried it in 1.8.1, Win XP Pro, with no error, then tried in a relatively recent build of r-patched and saw the crash. I'll see if I can track it down. Duncan Murdoch> >The code seems to stop at the call to plot() in the code below, and then >MS's error reporting window pops up and informs us that rgui has been >closed. > >Note that the same code, but without the postcript() and dev.off() >commands works as expected to produce the plot on a windows device. > >Any ideas as to what is going on? > >All the best, > >Gav > >#code to run to reproduce the problem >year <- c(1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, >1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002) > >avgMsr <- c(10.800000, 7.000000, 6.200000, 9.571429, 10.800000, >11.600000, 10.200000, 11.400000, 7.200000, 9.400000, 11.200000, >11.600000, 11.600000, 8.000000, 7.600000) > >totMsr <- c(19, 17, 13, 24, 17, 17, 21, 18, 13, 15, 19, 18, 21, 15, 11) > >postscript(file="invert.eps", onefile=FALSE, horizontal = FALSE, >pointsize = 8) > >op <- par(mar = c(3,4,1.5,1)+0.1,font.main=16,tcl=-0.2) >plot(x = year, y = avgMsr, ylab = "Species richness", main = "Loch Coire >nan Arr", axes = FALSE, ylim = c(0,25), xlim = c(1988,2002)) >axis(2, las=1) >axis(1) >lines(x = year, y = avgMsr) >points(x = year, y = totMsr , col = "black", pch = 19, type = "o") >lines(x = year, y = totMsr) >box() >par(op) >dev.off()
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