[Rd] grid bug

[Paul Murrell]

Hi

I've just discovered a potentially nasty bug in grid.
If you have developed code using grid, please check whether this may 
affect your code.

The problem occurs when a numeric value is multiplied by a unit object, 
e.g., 0.5*unit(1, "inches").  The result will be WRONG if the numeric 
has length > 1, e.g., c(0.25, 0.5)*unit(1, "inches").

The problem is illustrated by the following:

       grid.segments(x0=1:3/4, y0=0.1, x1=1:3/4,
                     y1=unit(1:3/4, "npc"),
                     gp=gpar(col="grey", lwd=5))
       grid.segments(x0=1:3/4, y0=0.1, x1=1:3/4,
                     y1=1:3/4*unit(1, "npc"))

This draws three vertical bars.  The thin black bars should be the same 
heights as the thick grey bars, but they are not.

A fix for this will be in R version 1.8.1

Paul
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