[R] trouble printing from graphics device in R 2.7.2

[Jenny Drnevich]

Thank you! It works now. It's good to know that it was a bug and not 
something stupid that I was doing.

Cheers,
Jenny

At 01:32 PM 9/12/2008, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>I've tracked this down to the clipping bug fix reported in the 
>CHANGES file.  There is another bug fix in R-devel that does not 
>affect printing, so your first option is to use one of the R-devel 
>snapshots on CRAN.
>
>I'll move the R-devel fix to R-patched shortly, so tonight's 
>R-patched snapshot should also work.
>
>On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Jenny Drnevich wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I've been using R for many years and have always tried to keep my R 
>>version up to date, and when I switched from 2.7.1 to 2.7.2 I'm 
>>suddenly having trouble printing from the graphics device. I have 
>>Windows XP, and installed both versions of R from the binaries. If 
>>I start 2.7.2 and simply do:
>>
>>>plot(1:10)
>>
>>the default R Graphics Device window opens as usual. However, when 
>>I use the menu in that window to File -> Print, the graph that is 
>>printed is cut off below ~2 on the y-axis and ~10 on the x-axis if 
>>I don't resize the Graphics window; resizing the window bigger does 
>>result in more of the graph printed, but it's still cut off on the 
>>y-axis. Everything prints fine in R 2.7.1 (sessionInfo()s below), 
>>and all other versions of R I've had on this exact same computer 
>>for the last 3 years printing to the same printer, which is why I 
>>think it's something with R 2.7.2. I even tried un-installing and 
>>re-installing 2.7.2, but the problem persisted. Using the menu to 
>>save the graphic in various formats seems to work fine - the entire 
>>graph is visible in the .png, .pdf, etc. files. I didn't see 
>>anything in the changes or the archives about this... so what's 
>>going on and how do I fix it so I can continue to use 2.7.2?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Jenny
>>
>>
>>>sessionInfo()
>>R version 2.7.2 (2008-08-25)
>>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] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>>
>>>sessionInfo()
>>R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
>>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] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>>
>>Jenny Drnevich, Ph.D.
>>
>>Functional Genomics Bioinformatics Specialist
>>W.M. Keck Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics
>>Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center
>>University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>>
>>330 ERML
>>1201 W. Gregory Dr.
>>Urbana, IL 61801
>>USA
>>
>>ph: 217-244-7355
>>fax: 217-265-5066
>>e-mail: drnevich at illinois.edu
>>
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>
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