[R] Re: new versions of grid and lattice

Søren Buhl slb at math.auc.dk
Tue Dec 18 09:54:40 CET 2001


Paul Murrell wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> New versions of the grid and lattice packages will be available with the
> release of R 1.4 (in a couple of days):
> 
>     grid_0.5
>     lattice_0.3-1
> 
> These packages will no longer be in the "development" directory (i.e., they
> will be in CRAN/src/contrib).
> 
> The changes in this release are mostly to grid, with lattice modified just
> to take account of those changes.
> 
> Some important points about the grid changes are ...
> 
> (i)  grid_0.5 will only work with R version 1.4 or later.
> 
> (ii)  The main new features are support for clipping to viewports and
> support for multiple devices.  See the file grid/doc/changes_0.5.txt for
> other changes.
> 
> (iii)  There is a known bug on Windows;  turning on plot history recording
> while producing grid graphics will crash R.  Adding individual plots to the
> plot history seems to work ok.
> 
> (iv)  Some things still missing are:  vector fonts, mathematical annotation,
> compatibility with base graphics, and many helpful suggestions from users
> that I still haven't found time to get to! :)
> 
> Paul Murrell
> Deepayan Sarkar
> 
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