trouble printing from graphics device in R 2.7.2

Is there a setting change (or other minor fix) that can be done without
an install of either the patched or development versions to address the
printing issue described below. It is my understanding that these
versions are 'source code' and not compiled for 'easy' installation.

Thanks
Tom



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On Behalf Of Jenny Drnevich
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:47 AM
To: Prof Brian Ripley
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] trouble printing from graphics device in R 2.7.2

Thank you! It works now. It's good to know that it was a bug and not
something stupid that I was doing.

Cheers,
Jenny

At 01:32 PM 9/12/2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

I've tracked this down to the clipping bug fix reported in the CHANGES
file.  There is another bug fix in R-devel that does not affect
printing, so your first option is to use one of the R-devel snapshots
on CRAN.

I'll move the R-devel fix to R-patched shortly, so tonight's R-patched
snapshot should also work.

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Jenny Drnevich wrote:

Hi,

I've been using R for many years and have always tried to keep my R
version up to date, and when I switched from 2.7.1 to 2.7.2 I'm
suddenly having trouble printing from the graphics device. I have
Windows XP, and installed both versions of R from the binaries. If I
start 2.7.2 and simply do:

plot(1:10)

the default R Graphics Device window opens as usual. However, when I
use the menu in that window to File -> Print, the graph that is
printed is cut off below ~2 on the y-axis and ~10 on the x-axis if I
don't resize the Graphics window; resizing the window bigger does
result in more of the graph printed, but it's still cut off on the
y-axis. Everything prints fine in R 2.7.1 (sessionInfo()s below), and
all other versions of R I've had on this exact same computer for the
last 3 years printing to the same printer, which is why I think it's
something with R 2.7.2. I even tried un-installing and re-installing
2.7.2, but the problem persisted. Using the menu to save the graphic
in various formats seems to work fine - the entire graph is visible in

the .png, .pdf, etc. files. I didn't see anything in the changes or
the archives about this... so what's going on and how do I fix it so I

can continue to use 2.7.2?

Thanks,
Jenny

sessionInfo()

R version 2.7.2 (2008-08-25)
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] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

sessionInfo()

R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
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] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base


Jenny Drnevich, Ph.D.

Functional Genomics Bioinformatics Specialist W.M. Keck Center for
Comparative and Functional Genomics Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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