From: acuster@nature.berkeley.edu Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 00:13:41 +0200 (MET DST) To: r-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [Rd] RE:bug 548 graphics '*' (PR#549) CC: R-bugs@biostat.ku.dk X-Loop: R-bugs@biostat.ku.dk X-Keywords: Full_Name: Adrian Custer Version: 1.0.1 OS: gnu-linux (mandrake 7.1beta) Submission from: (NULL) (128.32.251.234) This is an update to bug report 548.
Please put PR#548 in the subject line for a follow-up. And *please* mention critical facts like which graphics device you were using.
The bug had two parts on my system: 1) the gnome-interface puts the "*" mark in the wrong place. It could be superscript or something else. From the Docs the gnome-interface claimed just to
re-display
the base R but it is obviously doing something more and breaking the display.
Can you tell us please where you read that in the docs, so we can correct it? It is a completely separate graphics device, to be called gtk() from 1.1.0 (and the X11-based x11() will also be available).
1) the X11() interface. I can no longer reproduce the bug. Yesterday, the mark was off everytime by a pixel today it is fine.
*one* pixel? I don't think you can expect one-pixel accuracy, not least as where the centre of `*' is in the font used on my screen is unclear to less than about half pixel. Accuracy to one pixel seems fine on a screen device, provided it is consistent. You can expect greatest accuracy on the hardcopy devices, where it may matter.
I have contacted the person in charge of the gnome-Interface port so this
should
be considered a bug of that unless I can start reproducing the X11() offset.
If you mean Lyndon Drake, he has moved and as far as we know is no longer working on R.
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