R help - Aug 2000 - is win.print() broken or am I doing something wrong?

I am trying to print a graph
> plot(y=atestplot$b,x=atestplot$a, type="s")
> win.print()
This leads to a windows print dialog box- that diappears when i hit 
print. subquently  i find  a 
"GraphAppJob" of zero size in the print queue- this just sits until I 
enter 
dev.off()
at which point a blank sheet is printed
Is it me or is this a bug?

Incidentally if i just select the print button when the plot is selected 
immediately after producing the plot it prints just fine

Dominic



Dr Dominic J Barraclough
Dept Neurobiology and Anatomy,
University of Rochester,
601 Elmwood Av, Box 603,
Rochester 
NY 14642
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 Dominic_Barraclough at urmc.rochester.edu wrote:
> I am trying to print a graph
> 
> > plot(y=atestplot$b,x=atestplot$a, type="s")
> > win.print()
> 
> This leads to a windows print dialog box- that diappears when i hit 
> print. subquently  i find  a 
> "GraphAppJob" of zero size in the print queue- this just sits
until I
> enter 
> dev.off()
> at which point a blank sheet is printed
> Is it me or is this a bug?
It's you :).  win.print() does not print the current plot. It creates a
new plot on a windows printer. So when you do win.print() nothing happens
until you plot something and close the device. Then it prints whatever you
plotted (in your case, nothing).

I think you are looking for dev.print/dev.copy.
> 
> Incidentally if i just select the print button when the plot is selected 
> immediately after producing the plot it prints just fine
Yes.

	-thomas

Thomas Lumley
Assistant Professor, Biostatistics
University of Washington, Seattle

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Thankyou for the prompt reply and the redirection (back to trying 
dev.print- i had tried it but it did not seem to do what i wanted)

Next question - 
I have now played with dev.print- and have been able to get my 
graph out to a postscript file but what i really would like to do is to 
print directly to the printer - can this be done? I assume (hope) it 
must be possible , given that R is at least some level aware of  
printing in a windows enviroment, if not I will have to revert back to 
driving  excel with python via com :-(  .

Dominic




Dr Dominic J Barraclough
Dept Neurobiology and Anatomy,
University of Rochester,
601 Elmwood Av, Box 603,
Rochester 
NY 14642
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