[R] Multiple palettes on single plot don't get rendered when I use dev.copy2pdf

[peter dalgaard]

On Dec 12, 2012, at 01:48 , arun wrote:

> Hi,
> Try this:
>  pdf("broke.pdf")
>  palette(rainbow(6))
>  plot(x=x1,y=y1,col=y1,xlim=c(-10,20))
>  palette(heat.colors(6))
>  points(x=x2,y=y2,col=y2)
>  dev.off()
> A.K.

Yep. Notice though that this is not specific to dev.copy2pdf, the same effect happens if you just resize the the screen device. Seems like palette changes are not recorded in the display list. Not sure whether that is by omission or by design.


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