[R] problem with postscript output of R-devel on Windows

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 8/31/2006 3:51 PM, Kimpel, Mark William wrote:
> I apologize for my previous confusing example. Below is some sample
> code, taken directly from the "image" help file, that reproduces a
> postscript problem. This now happens with both R 2.3.1 and R 2.4
> 
> What I get appears to be output of only certain postscript "objects", to
> use an Adobe term. When I use the R GUI menu to "save as", jpeg and pdf
> files save correctly, but the postscript file does not. I am not getting
> any axis labels or topo labels. This is true whether I import the PS
> file into either Photoshop or Illustrator.

I don't see a problem using GSView.  Maybe this is an Adobe bug?

Duncan

> 
> Thanks, Mark
> 
> x <- 10*(1:nrow(volcano))
>      y <- 10*(1:ncol(volcano))
>      image(x, y, volcano, col = terrain.colors(100), axes = FALSE)
>      contour(x, y, volcano, levels = seq(90, 200, by = 5),
>              add = TRUE, col = "peru")
>      axis(1, at = seq(100, 800, by = 100))
>      axis(2, at = seq(100, 600, by = 100))
>      box()
>      title(main = "Maunga Whau Volcano", font.main = 4)
> 
>> sessionInfo()
> Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01) 
> i386-pc-mingw32 
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"
> "datasets" 
> [7] "base"  
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:52 PM
> To: Kimpel, Mark William
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] problem with postscript output of R-devel on Windows
> 
> On 8/31/2006 11:27 AM, Kimpel, Mark William wrote:
>> I have developed a problem with the postscript output of plot on
> Windows. My code still works properly with R 2.3 but, with R 2.4, the
> white text on red background does not show up. It does, however, show up
> when output is sent to the screen. Below is my code and sessionInfo.
>> 
>> R version 2.4.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-08-29 r39012) 
>> i386-pc-mingw32 
>> 
>> locale:
>> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>> 
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] "splines"   "tools"     "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"
> "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets" 
>> [9] "base"     
>> 
>> other attached packages:
>>   Rgraphviz geneplotter         XML     GOstats    Category
> hgu95av2        KEGG    multtest      xtable 
>>    "1.11.9"    "1.11.8"    "0.99-8"     "1.6.0"     "1.4.1"
> "1.12.0"     "1.8.1"    "1.11.2"     "1.3-2" 
>>        RBGL    annotate          GO       graph       Ruuid
> limma  genefilter    survival     rat2302 
>>     "1.8.1"    "1.11.5"     "1.6.5"   "1.11.13"    "1.11.2"
> "2.7.9"    "1.11.8"      "2.28"    "1.12.0" 
>>        affy      affyio     Biobase 
>>    "1.11.6"     "1.1.8"   "1.11.29"
>> 
>> 
>> fileName<-paste(experiment, contrast, "FDR", FDR, "Graph", "ps",
> sep=".")
>>     postscript(file=fileName, paper="special",width=width,
> height=height) #set up graphics device
>>     plot(result.gN, layout.param, nodeAttrs = nAttrs, edgeAttrs =
> eAttrs,
>>         main=paste(paste("Experiment:", experiment, ";  Contrast:",
> contrast,";  FDR:", FDR, sep=""), paste("Min. connections ==",
> min.edges, "Min. citations per connection ==", min.cites, "Additional
> search criteria:",
>>             termAdditional, sep=" "), sep="    "))
> 
> 
> Could you put together a reproducible example to illustrate the problem?
> 
>   We don't have all the variables used in that example.  I think you 
> should be able to do it with just base packages attached; if not, it's 
> likely a problem with one of the contributed packages, rather than with
> R.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
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