[R] Postscript device bug when more than one page is needed?

[Patrick Connolly]

It would appear to me that there is a bug in the postscript device
when multiple pages are required.  Line widths can be only 1 after the
first page.  I have not seen reference to this as a problem before.


test.device <-
function()
{
#  looks like the problem is in the postscript device
  
       postscript(file = paste("Test.ps"), horizontal = F)
       on.exit(dev.off())
       par(mai = rep(1, 4), lwd = 4)    
    for(j in 1:3) {
       plot(1:10, 11:20)
       title(paste("Testing  .... Page", j), line = -1, cex = 1.5)
    }
}

The first page is fine, but subsequent pages seem to lose the lwd
information.  Otherwise in this simple example, anyway, everything
seems to be as it should.  It makes no difference if the lwd parameter
is set in the plotting call itself,even if that is done for each value
of j.

The above code does not have a problem in Splus 3.4.

Has anyone a work around apart from doing separate plots for each
page? 

platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i686             
os       linux-gnu        
system   i686, linux-gnu  
status                    
major    1                
minor    1.0              
year     2000             
month    June             
day      15               
language R                


best

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-- 
Patrick Connolly
HortResearch
Mt Albert
Auckland
New Zealand 
Ph: +64-9 815 4200 x 7188
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I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all
the beaches of the world ... Perhaps you've seen it.  ---Steven Wright
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