[Rd] savePlot export "strange" eps (PR#13620)

[Uwe Ligges]

Christophe Genolini wrote:
> Sorry for that... I find a strange behavior in "savePlot" ; before 
> report a bug, I read the posting guide and I try to simplify my exemple 
> as much as possible. Doing this, I change my code and I remove the " 
> type='eps' " option... Sorry !
> 
> Let's start this again.
> 
> When I use savePlot(file="toto.eps",type="eps") and I try to incorporate 
> "toto.eps" in a LaTeX document, I get a strange behavior:
> LaTeX run normaly, so does dvips. But the generated postscript include a 
> graph that overwirte the line above it.
> If my latex is
> 
> bonjour bonjour2 bonjour3
> \begin{center}
> \includegraphics[width=12cm]{toto.eps}
> \end{center}
> 
> Then "bonjour2 bonjour3" is hidden by the graph.


No so for me, but let me (what you still not did), give a reproducible 
example:

I opened some vanilla R-2.8.1 under Windows using

RGui --vanilla

in R:

plot(1:10)
savePlot(file="d:/temp/toto.eps", type="eps")

Then I created a LaTeX document:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
bonjour bonjour2 bonjour3
\begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=12cm]{toto.eps}
\end{center}
\end{document}


and ran LaTeX and dvips.

All is fine.  So, *please*, specify a reproducible example or we cannot 
help. I presume you have a LaTeX problem. Anyway, a better way to export 
your graphs would be to use a proper device directly - independent of 
what happens here.

And also, this is still not proved to be a bug, particularly not in R!

Uwe Ligges




> Version: 2.8.1
> OS: Windows XP
> LaTeX : Miktex 2.7
> 
> Christophe
> 
>>
>>
>> cgenolin at u-paris10.fr wrote:
>>> Full_Name: Christophe Genolini
>>> Version: 2.8.1
>>> OS: Windows XP
>>> Submission from: (NULL) (82.225.59.146)
>>>
>>>
>>> savePlot export "eps" graph that seems to be incorrect. 
>>
>>
>> Looks like you saved an EMF rather than an eps file???
>>
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>>
>>
>>> Trying to incorporate them in a LaTeX file, I get : 
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> Cannot determine size of graphics in foo.eps (no BoundingBox)
>>> ----------------------
>>>
>>> Trying to open them with GSview, I get :
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>> GSview 4.9 2007-11-18
>>> AFPL Ghostscript 8.54 (2006-05-17)
>>> Copyright (C) 2005 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA.  All rights reserved.
>>> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
>>> Displaying non DSC file C:/Documents and Settings/Christophe/Mes
>>> documents/Recherche/Trajectoires/kmeal/trajectories/testsDev/toti.eps
>>> Error: /undefined in 

>>> Operand stack:
>>>
>>> Execution stack:
>>>    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--  
>>> --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   
>>> --nostringval--   false  1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   
>>> 1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3  %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   
>>> .runexec2   --nostringval--  --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   
>>> %stopped_push   --nostringval--
>>> Dictionary stack:
>>>    --dict:1130/1686(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:74/200(L)--
>>> Current allocation mode is local
>>> Last OS error: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> --- Begin offending input ---
>>> 
   €      L   z  f          C  fC   EMF  
 $6  7        
>>> l           °
  
              €— ° G r a p h A p p     
>>> %        €%
>>>        €%        €%        €%        €%        €%        
>>> €%       €%        €%        €%        €%        €K   @   
>>> 0          
   
     N   N   y  @  N   N   y  @  %        
>>> €%        €:         _   8   
   8       8        
 
>>>                        %      
            ;            l   *  
>>> 6      Z
  õ
  <      @      f   ï
  `
  0  %   
>>>     €(      
   %        €%        €K   @   0          
   
>>> 
      N   N  y  @  N   N   y  @  %        €%        €:   
>>>       _   8   
   8       8        
                        %   
>>>    
            ;            m
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>>> @      g
  µ
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>>>     €(      
   %        €%        €K   @   0          
   
>>> 
             ¡  ¡          ¡  ¡  %        €%        €:   
>>>       _   8   
   8       8        
 
                   --- End 
>>> offending input ---
>>> file offset = 1024
>>> gsapi_run_string_continue returns -101
>>>
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