R devel - Oct 2010 - Incorrect positioning of raster images on Windows

I am working on dumping raster data from R into PNG files using
rasterImage().  I am working with a test matrix from the rasterImage()
example and using it to produce a PNG image with the following code:


# From the example for rasterImage(). A 3 pixel by 5 pixel b/w checkerboard.
testImage <- as.raster(0:1, nrow=3, ncol=5)

testImage
     [,1]      [,2]      [,3]      [,4]      [,5]     
[1,] "#000000" "#FFFFFF" "#000000"
"#FFFFFF" "#000000"
[2,] "#FFFFFF" "#000000" "#FFFFFF"
"#000000" "#FFFFFF"
[3,] "#000000" "#FFFFFF" "#000000"
"#FFFFFF" "#000000"

png('test.png', width=5, height=3, units='px')

# Just want the image, no margins, boarders or other fancy stuff.
par(mar = c(0,0,0,0) )
plot.new()
plotArea = par('fig')

rasterImage(testImage, plotArea[1], plotArea[3],
  plotArea[2], plotArea[4], interpolate = FALSE )

dev.off()


However, using R 2.12.0, 64 bit on Windows 7 I have a strange issue where
the image is shifted up by one row and to the left by one row.  In other
words, the bottom row of pixels is missing along with the right column.  The
code works as I expect it to on OS X and Debian.


Am I misusing the plotting commands in some way or should I submit an
off-by-one bugreport to Bugzilla?

Any suggestions or comments are most welcome.

-Charlie

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Charlie Sharpsteen
Undergraduate-- Environmental Resources Engineering
Humboldt State University
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I think there's something about the "discrete cell" versus
"centre value"
interpretation here, and you are pushing the "pixels" through R's
graphics
engine as well as whatever the png device has to do.

I can't enlighten you about the details of that, but by creating an image
file more directly with "pixels as data" you can get the result
exactly:

test <- matrix(c(0, 255), 3, 5)
library(rgdal)
## transpose to get orientation right
x <- image2Grid(list(x = 1:ncol(test), y = 1:nrow(test), z = t(test)))
writeGDAL(x, "raster.png", driver = "PNG", type =
"Byte")



On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Sharpie <chuck@sharpsteen.net> wrote:
>
> I am working on dumping raster data from R into PNG files using
> rasterImage().  I am working with a test matrix from the rasterImage()
> example and using it to produce a PNG image with the following code:
>
>
> # From the example for rasterImage(). A 3 pixel by 5 pixel b/w
> checkerboard.
> testImage <- as.raster(0:1, nrow=3, ncol=5)
>
> testImage
>     [,1]      [,2]      [,3]      [,4]      [,5]
> [1,] "#000000" "#FFFFFF" "#000000"
"#FFFFFF" "#000000"
> [2,] "#FFFFFF" "#000000" "#FFFFFF"
"#000000" "#FFFFFF"
> [3,] "#000000" "#FFFFFF" "#000000"
"#FFFFFF" "#000000"
>
> png('test.png', width=5, height=3, units='px')
>
> # Just want the image, no margins, boarders or other fancy stuff.
> par(mar = c(0,0,0,0) )
> plot.new()
> plotArea = par('fig')
>
> rasterImage(testImage, plotArea[1], plotArea[3],
>  plotArea[2], plotArea[4], interpolate = FALSE )
>
> dev.off()
>
>
> However, using R 2.12.0, 64 bit on Windows 7 I have a strange issue where
> the image is shifted up by one row and to the left by one row.  In other
> words, the bottom row of pixels is missing along with the right column.
>  The
> code works as I expect it to on OS X and Debian.
>
>
> Am I misusing the plotting commands in some way or should I submit an
> off-by-one bugreport to Bugzilla?
>
> Any suggestions or comments are most welcome.
>
> -Charlie
>
> -----
> Charlie Sharpsteen
> Undergraduate-- Environmental Resources Engineering
> Humboldt State University
> --
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>
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-- 
Michael Sumner
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
Hobart, Australia
e-mail: mdsumner@gmail.com

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