[Rd] using rasterImage within image

[Simon Urbanek]

On Feb 14, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Ben Bolker wrote:

> Paul Murrell <p.murrell <at> auckland.ac.nz> writes:
> 
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> On 12/02/2011 7:22 p.m., Michael Sumner wrote:
>>> Hello, that appears to have fixed it. Thank you very much.
>>> 
>>> I can now repeat the reported workflow and the image appears on the
>>> fifth (and subsequent) calls.
>> 
>> Great. Thanks for checking.
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
> 
> 
>  That's great.
> 
>  Just a little bump: I would encourage Simon (in his copious spare
> time), or other interested members of R-core, to decide on a good
> name for the argument (as a reminder, I prefer 'method=c("raster","image")').
> Furthermore, I would strongly encourage that "raster" be made the default
> behavior for the development release of R ...
> 


Unfortunately I just encountered a speed bump today - I had no idea that the Windows device doesn't even support transparent pixels. That needs to be fixed before we can make it the default...

Cheers,
Simon