[Rd] using rasterImage within image

[Paul Murrell]

Hi

On 15/02/2011 8:11 a.m., Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
> 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...

See the table at the bottom of 
http://developer.r-project.org/Raster/raster-RFC.html for the full list 
of limitations.

Paul

> Cheers, Simon
>
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