R help - Jun 2010 - Warped Text in mtext in a Quartz-Window

Hello,

With one procedure, I get a strangely warped text in the mtext-area of a
quartz-window, while with an other the text comes out OK - see attached PDF.
(Number of Trials is the x-Axis label, which always comes out OK)
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The two procedures differ in the statistics they perform and in the graphics
they draw, but the writing of the (different) text in the bottom are of the
quartz-window is the same function for both procedures. Only that one time the
text comes out correct, the other time it is warped.

The mtext is defined as follows:
mtext(TheTextVariable, side=1, outer=TRUE, adj=0.5, line=0.5, col=TheColor)

R Version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31), OSX 10.6.4

Can someone give me a hint what could cause this unexpected behaviour?

Thanks a lot,
kind regards,
Bernhard Pollner

On Jun 21, 2010, at 10:28 PM, Bernhard Pollner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> With one procedure, I get a strangely warped text in the mtext-area  
> of a quartz-window, while with an other the text comes out OK - see  
> attached PDF.
> (Number of Trials is the x-Axis label, which always comes out OK)
> <Warped Text.pdf>
>
> The two procedures differ in the statistics they perform and in the  
> graphics they draw, but the writing of the (different) text in the  
> bottom are of the quartz-window is the same function for both  
> procedures. Only that one time the text comes out correct, the other  
> time it is warped.
>
> The mtext is defined as follows:
> mtext(TheTextVariable, side=1, outer=TRUE, adj=0.5, line=0.5,  
> col=TheColor)
>
> R Version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31), OSX 10.6.4
>
> Can someone give me a hint what could cause this unexpected behaviour?
Why don't you:

  a) create a test program that employs the different (unnamed)  
procedures that appear to generate these different behaviors,

..  and then b) repost in the correct list:

https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac

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