[R] recordPlot in 1.5.x, replayPlot in 1.6.0 problem

[Don MacQueen]

Thank you for responding.

I checked the dates, and "fairly recent" means R-1.5.0 in this case. 
I will try to get a reproducible example.

-Don

At 6:03 PM +0100 11/2/02, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>Don MacQueen wrote:
>>
>>  I have plots that were stored using recordPlot() in a fairly recent
>>  but pre-1.6.0 version of R that will not replayPlot() in R 1.6.0. The
>>  error message is
>>      Error in replayPlot(x) : invalid hex digit in color or lty
>>
>>  The plots were stored in June (2002-6-14), each as an element of a
>>  list named 'rpl'. The version of R that was current then is what I
>>  used. At that time I was able to re-display them.
>>
>>  Today, in R 1.6.0, when I try to re-display them, I get an error message:
>>  >  rpl[[1]]
>>  Error in replayPlot(x) : invalid hex digit in color or lty
>>
>>  The plots did have lines with col='blue' and lty=2 in them. This
>>  little snippet of code executed today works
>>    > plot(1:5)
>>    > lines(1:5,col='blue',lty=2)
>>    > tmp <- recordPlot()
>>    > tmp
>>  so there doesn't seem to be a problem if I work entirely within
>>  v1.6.0. Which suggests that the problem is in going from one version
>>  to the next.
>>
>>  >  version
>>            _
>>  platform sparc-sun-solaris2.7
>>  arch     sparc
>>  os       solaris2.7
>>  system   sparc, solaris2.7
>>  status   Patched
>>  major    1
>>  minor    6.0
>>  year     2002
>>  month    10
>>  day      13
>>  language R
>
>
>I have tested your example with R-1.3.1 (!), R-1.5.1 (record) and
>R-1.6.0, R-1.6.1 (replay) --- with success.
>So it is really of interest
>  a) to get a reproducable example and/or
>  b) to know what "fairly recent" means.
>
>Uwe Ligges


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