[R] Printing a plot on Windows

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Joaquin Diaz-Saiz wrote:

> I am using R 1.5.0 for Windows. When trying to print a plot produced by R
> clicking on the printer icon, or by clicking on "FILE - Print", there is no
> response. This happens under Windows 95 and 98.
> Has somebody found this problem? Is there a solution besides saving the plot
> and printing it using another application?

Look in the R-help archives.  Yes, it is a bug, but only in the GUI.  You
can use dev.print(win.print), for example, or copying to the clipboard
and printing from there.  It's fixed in the current R-patched, but that's
only currently available as source code.

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