[Rd] Different results between v2.6.1 and 2.7.1 (PR#12579)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

You haven't told us the graphics device or OS used, nor it seems have you 
taken account of

                 CHANGES IN R VERSION 2.7.0


SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

     o   Considerable efforts have been made to make the default output
         from graphics devices as similar as possible (and in
         particular close to that from postscript/pdf).  Many devices
         were misinterpreting 'pointsize' in some way, for example as
         being in device units (pixels) rather than in points.


On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, shiun1980 at inotera.com wrote:

> Hello~
>
> When I use R2.6.1, the following work correctly.

Define 'correctly'!  For example, as I recall the X11 device in 2.6.1 was 
not working as documented except on 75dpi and 100dpi screens.

> par(mar=3Dc(4.2,3.1,0.5,0.5), oma=3Dc(2,2,2,2))
>
> boxplot(count ~ spray, col =3D "lightgray")

That line does not work correctly for me under either.  I think 
data=InsetSprays is missing.

> box("inner", lty=3D"dotted", col=3D"red")
>
> box("outer", lty=3D"solid", col=3D"green")
>
> But when I use R2.7.1, the outer region seems too large.

Well, you set it, so you seem to have set it incorrectly.  It is two lines 
wide on all the devices I tried in 2.7.1.

> I don=A1=A6t know what happened.

Nor do we, but RTFM failure seems implicated.

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