[Bioc-devel] splots -- new package announcement

[Oleg Sklyar]

Hi Steven,

a colleague of mine has just checked it on her powerpc-apple-darwin8.7.0 
with R2.3.1 -- it worked fine, all coloured.

As I can see it the cause of the problem could only be either in 'grid' 
package that 'splots' uses or in R graphics internally, but not in 
'splots'. The function is quite simple in sense of technical 
implementation, it does not fork R-graphics and simply uses a couple of 
things from 'grid'. Considering also that PDF works fine, the cause 
cannot be in colorRamp as well.

I wish I could help more, but I am afraid it's a 'grid' bug and I cannot 
reproduce the bug on another Mac, which means it is more likely a 
machine-specific issue rather than platform-specific.

How about R2.4 when it comes out, maybe give it a try.

Best regards,
Oleg

Steven McKinney wrote:
> Hi Oleg,
> 
> As I have some 96 well plate data to look at
> right now, I downloaded your package.
> 
> Unfortunately I am having trouble on 
> Mac OS X 10.4.7 and Rapp 2.3.1
> 
> If I run your example,
> 
>> data(splots.screen)
>> plotScreen(screen, 3)
> 
> I get a Quartz screen with 12 grey
> rectangles, subtitled 'datasetnn', 
> (nn = 1, 2, ... 12)
> all white otherwise.
> 
> If I resize the screen, I briefly see coloured
> rectangles within the grey borders, but then white
> returns and all is blank.
> 
> I also tried printing to a PDF file, which worked
> properly, so I can at least do that.
> 
> Anyone have similar problems with other plots?
> Is this an Rapp/Quartz issue only?  Have I set up
> something inappropriately?
> 
> Any insights appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> version
>                _                         
> platform       powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0 
> arch           powerpc                   
> os             darwin8.6.0               
> system         powerpc, darwin8.6.0      
> status                                   
> major          2                         
> minor          3.1                       
> year           2006                      
> month          06                        
> day            01                        
> svn rev        38247                     
> language       R                         
> version.string Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Steven McKinney
> 
> Statistician
> Molecular Oncology and Breast Cancer Program
> British Columbia Cancer Research Centre
> 
> email: smckinney at bccrc.ca
> 
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> 
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bioc-devel-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch on behalf of Oleg Sklyar
> Sent: Wed 9/13/2006 7:32 AM
> To: bioc-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [Bioc-devel] splots -- new package announcement
>  
> Hi all,
> 
> a couple of weeks ago I submitted a yet tiny new package, splots, that 
> aims to deliver different plotting routines for high-throughput screens 
> independently of analysis packages. The idea is too have a separate 
> plotting package with a minimum dependencies that would allow for nice 
> plots of screen-like data (what is currently done by parts of cellHTS, 
> prada etc).
> 
> The package has now passed through build/check and therefore I am 
> announcing it.
> 
> At the moment, the package contains one single function, plotScreen, 
> which is a grid-graphics implementation of a similar function from 
> cellHTS (credit to Ligia Breas for the idea!), and it stays this way for 
> the release. However I will add a couple of functions in the later devel 
> version as time allows.
> 
> I would be really happy if the package attract not only users but 
> developers as well. Feel free to participate in package development, 
> adding new functions, or simply using it.
> 
> Best,
> Oleg
> 

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