[Rd] Re: Bug#213857: r-base-core: xfig plot fails with invalid
line type (PR#4401)
Dirk Eddelbuettel
edd at debian.org
Sat Oct 4 09:56:07 MEST 2003
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:21:29AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 08:29:31AM -0500, Douglas Bates wrote:
> > edd at debian.org writes:
> >
> > > Graham,
> > >
> > > Confirmed. I will pass that along to the R team. As 1.8.0 is in code freeze,
> > > this may not get addressed, unfortunately.
> > >
> > > Regards, Dirk
> >
> > I believe Ross Ihaka has already detected and fixed this problem. The
> > fix should be in today's beta version of R-1.8.0. We hope it will
> > show up in the next Debian package Dirk makes for the unstable
> > (Debian) distribution.
>
> Excellent news. I happened to have made releases on Saturday mornings for
> the last five or six weeks, so I'll see how tomorrow's version behaves.
Looks like it has been fixed (see below) in the 1.8.0beta of 2003-10-04
which is currently being uploaded. Hence, I'll close the bug report on the
Debian end.
Thanks, Dirk
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> data(cars)
> xfig("/tmp/cars.xfig")
NULL
Warning message:
xfig(/tmp/cars.xfig, onefile=FALSE) will only return the last plot
> plot(cars)
> dev.off()
null device
1
> q()
Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n
>
> Thanks, Dirk
>
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:16:35PM +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
> > > > Package: r-base-core
> > > > Version: 1.7.1.cvs.20030927-1
> > > > Severity: normal
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > $ R
> > > >
> > > > R : Copyright 2003, The R Development Core Team
> > > > Version 1.8.0 beta (2003-09-27)
> > > >
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > > data(cars)
> > > > > postscript("tmp.ps")
> > > > > plot(cars)
> > > > > xfig("tmp.fig", onefile=TRUE)
> > > > > plot(cars)
> > > > Error in plot.xy(xy, type, col = col, pch = pch, cex = cex, bg = bg, lty = lty, :
> > > > invalid line type: must be length 2, 4, 6 or 8
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > No output is produced.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Graham
> > > >
> > > > -- System Information:
> > > > Debian Release: testing/unstable
> > > > Architecture: i386
> > > > Kernel: Linux festiva.act.cmis.csiro.au 2.4.22-1-686 #4 Sun Sep 28 13:27:15 EST 2003 i686
> > > > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
> > > >
> > > > Versions of packages r-base-core depends on:
> > > > ii atlas2-base [atlas2] 3.2.1ln-11 Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
> > > > ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.2-1 A high-quality block-sorting file
> > > > ii libc6 2.3.2-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> > > > ii libg2c0 1:3.3.2-0pre4 Runtime library for GNU Fortran 77
> > > > ii libgcc1 1:3.3.2-0pre4 GCC support library
> > > > ii libjpeg62 6b-8 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
> > > > ii libncurses5 5.3.20030719-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand
> > > > ii libpcre3 4.3-3 Philip Hazel's Perl 5 Compatible R
> > > > ii libpng10-0 1.0.15-4 PNG library, older version - runti
> > > > ii libreadline4 4.3-5 GNU readline and history libraries
> > > > ii perl 5.8.1-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
> > > > ii tcl8.4 8.4.4-1 Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8
> > > > ii tk8.4 8.4.4-1 Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.4 -
> > > > ii xlibs 4.2.1-11 X Window System client libraries
> > > > ii zlib-bin 1:1.1.4-15 compression library - sample progr
> > > > ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-15 compression library - runtime
> > > >
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> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
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> > > -- Groucho Marx
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