[R] Printing Lattice Graphs from Windows

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On Sunday 06 June 2004 18:10, Charles and Kimberly Maner wrote:
> 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.)

I can't check myself, but I believe a possible workaround is to use the 
respective devices directly (e.g. pdf() or win.metafile()) instead of 
copying from the GUI menu (at least I haven't heard anyone say that 
this does not work). 

Deepayan