[Rd] OS X PDF bug (PR#13943)

[ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, paul.m.mcguire.jr at att.net wrote:

No graphics device is specified here: which was it?

My guess is quartz() and that this is nothing to do with R but with 
copying in Mac OS X from a quartz() window.

> par(mfrow=c(2,2))
> y<-1:20
> plot(y,  pch="+")
> plot(y,  pch="+")
> plot(y,  pch="+")
> plot(y,  pch="+")
>
> produces a pdf that is viewable in Preview (copied from the
> clipboard) but fails to print.
>
> pch default or ="." or =3 prints.
>
> Unfortunately pch=3 doesn't fix the mfrow=c(5,6) graph that I'm
> actually trying to print,
> so the bug lies somewhere deeper.

Why not use pdf()?  That works for me (but then I don't have your 
printer drivers).

> OS X 10.4.11
> R 2.9.2 GUI 1.29 Tiger build 32-bit (5464)
> Laserjet 5MP
>
> Paul McGuire

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