[Rd] X11 image problem in R-2.8.0 Under development / R-2.7

[Prof Brian Ripley]

I think I have found this -- if so, it was an X11 timing issue and we 
needed to re-read the X11 window size at a later time.  Please 
try r45102 or later.

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Martin Morgan wrote:
>
>> I apologize if this is too obscure to reproduce, or some idiosyncratic
>> aspects of my system. If I create a plot, e.g.,
>> 
>> > plot(1:10)
>> 
>> I get a graphics device as expected. I then click on the 'zoom' box on
>> my X11 window, so the window expands to occupy the entire screen. The
>> plot is redrawn at the scale of the large window, but is clipped to the
>>   'unzoomed' size. I only see the top left portion of the plot,
>> occupying the space of the original image.
>> 
>> Here are the R essentials; I'm using X11 on a recent SuSE, connecting
>> via a moderately out-of-date cygwin from Windows. I'm happy to provide
>> more detail if pointed in the right direction (and will trouble shoot
>> myself if this is not a general problem).
>
> We've seen it, but not all systems do it.  At present it looks like a cairo 
> bug, but more work is needed on it.  If we haven't found a workaround by 
> release time, it will be documented on the help page.
>
>> 
>> > sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.8.0 Under development (unstable) (2008-04-03 r45066)
>> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>> 
>> locale:
>> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>> 
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>> 
>> > capabilities()
>>     jpeg      png    tcltk      X11     aqua http/ftp  sockets   libxml
>>     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE
>>     fifo   cledit    iconv      NLS  profmem    cairo
>>     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE
>> 
>> 
>> Martin
>> --
>> Martin Morgan
>> Computational Biology / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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>> 
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>> 
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>
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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>

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road,                     +44 1865 272866 (PA)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595