[R] 2.7.0 graphics changes and png devices

Oliver Soong osoong at gmail.com
Tue May 20 01:30:37 CEST 2008


Apologies for the double-post, but I figured I should be slightly more
specific.  I'm using the windows version of 2.7.0 and 2.6.2.  My calls
to png is simply png("2.7.0.png") and png("2.6.2.png"), respectively,
followed by the appropriate dev.off().

Oliver


On 5/19/08, Oliver Soong <osoong at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question about the graphics changes in 2.7.0.  The example is
> this bit of code:
>
> par(mfcol = c(2, 3))
> for(i in 1:6) plot(1:10, 1:10, xlab = "xlab", ylab = "ylab", main = "main")
>
> In 2.7.0, if I do this interactively (using windows()), I get bold
> titles.  If I do this through a png device, I get regular weight
> titles.  If I do this in 2.6.2, both situations give bold titles.
>
> I assume the 2.7.0 png device is off here, but I'm not sure how to fix
> this.  Suggestions?
>
> Oliver
>



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