[Rd] problems with bitmap images in windows XP

Duncan Murdoch murdoch at stats.uwo.ca
Fri Oct 8 20:35:50 CEST 2004


On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 10:14:15 -0400, Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen
<kjetil at acelerate.com> wrote :

>This is rw2000 on windowsXP
>
> jpeg("test.jpeg", bg="orangered")
> plot(1:10, 1:10, col="green")
> dev.off()
...
>Now, all of this gives a bluish background when wieved with Windows 
>Picture and Fax wiever or with the GIMP-2.0
>The bg= argument does not seem to have any effect.

....

>So what has happened?

There was a Windows-specific bug, for which I've just committed a fix.
Windows builds of r-patched or r-devel available tomorrow or later
should have it fixed.

Duncan Murdoch



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