[R] Printing Lattice Graphs from Windows

[Charles and Kimberly Maner]

Hi folks.  It looks like it's stirred some discussion ultimately
resulting/concluding that this phenomena is a possible bug either in the
lattice package or in R 1.9.0/1.9.1 itself.  So, I'll stay tuned, so to
speak, for either an update in the lattice package or R as it seems that
that's where the bug may lie.  FYI, the resulting plot, (e.g., plot(1~1)),
worked as it should either printing or as a copy and paste as a metafile
which causes me to believe it's in the lattice package.

I appreciate you guys looking into this.  (As you may/may not, for some us
corporate folk, data mining is (1) pulling data, (2) producing a graphical
representation of a story/hypothesis from the data and (3) pasting it into
MS Word and/or MS PowerPoint for presentation quickly.  So, to much of you
all's potential satisfaction, a number of us use R instead of S-Plus.)


Thanks,
Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: Spencer Graves [mailto:spencer.graves at pdf.com] 
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 5:02 PM
To: Spencer Graves
Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel; r-bugs at biostat.ku.dk; Ulises Mora Alvarez;
r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch; Charles and Kimberly Maner
Subject: Re: [R] Printing Lattice Graphs from Windows

Hi, Duncan: 

      I just did "plot(1:2)" in Rgui.exe, and that copied fine as a metafile
into MS Word via the clipboard. 

      Then I exited and restarted Rterm.exe under ESS and tried it again.
This time, I got a blank image copied into MS Word.  However, after I
modified the Lattice defaults via, "trellis.par.set('background',
list('white')); trellis.par.set('plot.symbol',  list(cex=0.8, col=1, font=1,
pch=1))", I was able to copy the results of "xyplot(1~1)" as a metafile into
Word.  
Unfortunately, when I tried modifying the Lattice defaults the same way
under Rgui.exe. I again got a blank image copied into Word. 

      hope this helps.  spencer graves

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Duncan Murdoch wrote:

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 15:00:52 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
wrote:


>But isn't it a bug in the windows version of R if the Rgui.exe cannot 
>copy to the clipboard where Rterm.exe can?
>  
>

Yes, definitely.  Can someone distill this down to code that uses only the
base packages (e.g. just grid)?  Lattice is a recommended package, so I'd
refer you to its maintainer, but it's probably something in a base package
that's going wrong.

Once you've done that, please submit it as a bug report with reproducible
code.  I've never looked at the Windows metafile device driver, so it's
unlikely I'll fix this by 1.9.1, but it is something that should be fixed.

Duncan Murdoch

Spencer Graves wrote:

>      I agree:  It sounds like a  bug, as you said, Irk, in that 
> Rgui.exe cannot copy a metafile to the clipboard, at least under MS 
> Windows 2000, 5.00.2195, Service Pack 3, even though Rterm.exe can.
> Therefore, I'm including "r-bugs at biostat.ku.dk" in the list of 
> addresses to this email.
>      Spencer Graves
>
> Irk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 12:26:45PM -0700, Spencer Graves wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>     Using R 1.9.1 alpha via XEmacs with ESS under Windows 2000, I 
>>> did the following:
>>>     library(lattice)
>>>     xyplot(1~1)
>>>
>>>     I got the plot in a separate window, from which I did File -> 
>>> Copy to the clipboard -> as a metafile.  I then changed to MS Word,
>>> and it pasted fine.   
>>
>>
>> Ok.
>>
>>  
>>
>>>     When I started R 1.9.1 alpha directly (without XEmacs) and tried 
>>> the same thing, I got a standard lattice plot.  However, when I 
>>> tried File -> Copy to the clipboard -> as a metafile, I got a blank 
>>> plot when copying into MS Word.  When I copied as a bitmap, it came
>>> through fine.  However, I suspect that is unacceptable.   
>>
>>
>> Not ok.
>> But isn't it a bug in the windows version of R if the Rgui.exe cannot 
>> copy to the clipboard where Rterm.exe can?
>>
>> I may be missing some subtle detail, though...
>> Irk
>>
>>  
>>
>
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