[Rd] Bug in R graphics device (PR#7271)

[murdoch at stats.uwo.ca]

There are a couple of things here.  One bug that has been fixed in
R-patched, one user error.

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 11:32:00 -0500, Hem Nalini <morzarialuna at wisc.edu>
wrote:

>I did the following:
>
>
>In a newly opened R session:
>
>
>1) Changed GUI preferences (-staring at white hurts my eyes, hence the
>pastels):
>
>Font: Lucida Console Type 12, Bold
>Background: Steel Blue 4
>Output text: LightGoldenRod 1
>User input: PalevioletRed
>Titles in page: Coral
>
>2) Saved GUI preferences:
>
>Press "Save": Instead of showing me the R working directory "My
>documents" pops up and I have to search for the directory

This is the user error:  if you want the preferences to appear when
you start R, you should save them in your "My documents" (Windows
home) directory.  (There are other possibilities; see the "Invoking R"
section of the Introduction to R manual.)

>3) Called data from base
>data(BOD)
>attach(BOD)
>BOD
>
>4) Create plot
>plot(Time~demand)
>
>5) Input in the R console is now invisible.
>

I think this bug has been fixed in R-patched.  Could you please try it
to confirm?

>6) If I close and open R again the GUI preferences I saved are not loaded.

Because they weren't where it was looking when you started it.

Duncan Murdoch
>
>Thank you
>
>-Hem Nalini Morzaria
>
>
>Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>> On Fri,  8 Oct 2004 23:57:45 +0200 (CEST), morzarialuna at wisc.edu
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>Full_Name: Hem Nalini Morzaria Luna
>>>Version: 2.00.00
>>>OS: Windows XP
>>>Submission from: (NULL) (128.104.98.229)
>>>
>>>
>>>When using the plot(), when no previous graphics devices are open, the text in
>>>the GUI disappears. Even if I close the graphics device I can't see the cursor.
>>>But it is still there, because I can type another plot() command. I had to close
>>>R and open it again for the GUI to return to normal. I also noticed that the
>>>changes I saved in the GUI were not loaded once I closed R and opened it again.
>>>
>>>I did modify the appearance of the GUI, I changed the font type, size, and font
>>>and background colors.
>> 
>> 
>> Please give exact details of how to reproduce this error. 
>> 
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>