[R] problem with postscript output of R-devel on Windows

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 8/31/2006 10:40 PM, Kimpel, Mark William wrote:
> I installed GSView and the file opens correctly and the output is as is
> should be. As you suggest, this must be a bug in Adobe CS2 Illustrator
> and Photoshop.

It could conceivably still be our bug, but I'd like to hear what Adobe 
tech support says about it.

Duncan Murdoch

> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Mark
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> Mark W. Kimpel MD 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:27 PM
> To: Kimpel, Mark William
> Cc: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] problem with postscript output of R-devel on Windows
> 
> On 8/31/2006 3:51 PM, Kimpel, Mark William wrote:
>> I apologize for my previous confusing example. Below is some sample
>> code, taken directly from the "image" help file, that reproduces a
>> postscript problem. This now happens with both R 2.3.1 and R 2.4
>>
>> What I get appears to be output of only certain postscript "objects",
> to
>> use an Adobe term. When I use the R GUI menu to "save as", jpeg and
> pdf
>> files save correctly, but the postscript file does not. I am not
> getting
>> any axis labels or topo labels. This is true whether I import the PS
>> file into either Photoshop or Illustrator.
> 
> I don't see a problem using GSView.  Maybe this is an Adobe bug?
> 
> Duncan
> 
>> Thanks, Mark
>>
>> x <- 10*(1:nrow(volcano))
>>      y <- 10*(1:ncol(volcano))
>>      image(x, y, volcano, col = terrain.colors(100), axes = FALSE)
>>      contour(x, y, volcano, levels = seq(90, 200, by = 5),
>>              add = TRUE, col = "peru")
>>      axis(1, at = seq(100, 800, by = 100))
>>      axis(2, at = seq(100, 600, by = 100))
>>      box()
>>      title(main = "Maunga Whau Volcano", font.main = 4)
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>> Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01) 
>> i386-pc-mingw32 
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"
>> "datasets" 
>> [7] "base"  
>>
>> Mark W. Kimpel MD 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch at stats.uwo.ca] 
>> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:52 PM
>> To: Kimpel, Mark William
>> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Subject: Re: [R] problem with postscript output of R-devel on Windows
>>
>> On 8/31/2006 11:27 AM, Kimpel, Mark William wrote:
>>> I have developed a problem with the postscript output of plot on
>> Windows. My code still works properly with R 2.3 but, with R 2.4, the
>> white text on red background does not show up. It does, however, show
> up
>> when output is sent to the screen. Below is my code and sessionInfo.
>>> R version 2.4.0 Under development (unstable) (2006-08-29 r39012) 
>>> i386-pc-mingw32 
>>>
>>> locale:
>>> LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
>> States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
>> States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] "splines"   "tools"     "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"
>> "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets" 
>>> [9] "base"     
>>>
>>> other attached packages:
>>>   Rgraphviz geneplotter         XML     GOstats    Category
>> hgu95av2        KEGG    multtest      xtable 
>>>    "1.11.9"    "1.11.8"    "0.99-8"     "1.6.0"     "1.4.1"
>> "1.12.0"     "1.8.1"    "1.11.2"     "1.3-2" 
>>>        RBGL    annotate          GO       graph       Ruuid
>> limma  genefilter    survival     rat2302 
>>>     "1.8.1"    "1.11.5"     "1.6.5"   "1.11.13"    "1.11.2"
>> "2.7.9"    "1.11.8"      "2.28"    "1.12.0" 
>>>        affy      affyio     Biobase 
>>>    "1.11.6"     "1.1.8"   "1.11.29"
>>>
>>>
>>> fileName<-paste(experiment, contrast, "FDR", FDR, "Graph", "ps",
>> sep=".")
>>>     postscript(file=fileName, paper="special",width=width,
>> height=height) #set up graphics device
>>>     plot(result.gN, layout.param, nodeAttrs = nAttrs, edgeAttrs =
>> eAttrs,
>>>         main=paste(paste("Experiment:", experiment, ";  Contrast:",
>> contrast,";  FDR:", FDR, sep=""), paste("Min. connections ==",
>> min.edges, "Min. citations per connection ==", min.cites, "Additional
>> search criteria:",
>>>             termAdditional, sep=" "), sep="    "))
>>
>> Could you put together a reproducible example to illustrate the
> problem?
>>   We don't have all the variables used in that example.  I think you 
>> should be able to do it with just base packages attached; if not, it's
> 
>> likely a problem with one of the contributed packages, rather than
> with
>> R.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
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