[R] RGtk2 drawing area as cairo device - no points

[Michael Lawrence]

Just wanted to acknowledge this. It's a known issue, and one that has been
tricky to solve, because it's platform-specific, so it's probably some sort
of bug in the abstraction (GDK).

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 12:26 AM, François Rebaudo <
francois.rebaudo at legs.cnrs-gif.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
> The following code adapted from Michael post (https://stat.ethz.ch/
> pipermail/r-help/2012-March/306069.html) works just fine on Linux Debian,
> but not on Windows 7 (no points on plots 2 and 3). More surprisingly, if the
> first plot is a boxplot, it works on both OS... and if I do a pdf (using
> pdf()), I get my points... Thanks in advance for your
> help.
>
> library(RGtk2)
> library(cairoDevice)
> win = gtkWindow(show = FALSE)
> win$setDefaultSize(500, 500)
> da = gtkDrawingArea()
> asCairoDevice(da)
> win$add(da)
> win$showAll()
> layout(matrix(c(1,1,2,3),2,2,byrow=TRUE))
> par(mar=c(0,0,0,0))
> plot(1:10) #boxplot(1:10)
> plot(1:10)
> plot(1:10)
>
>  sessionInfo()
>>
> R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=French_France.1252  LC_CTYPE=French_France.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=French_France.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=French_France.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_3.1.0
>
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