[R-SIG-Mac] splots -- new package announcement

[Simon Urbanek]

On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Steven McKinney wrote:

>
> Forwarding to r-sig-mac
>
> Anyone else have problems with the Quartz graphics display  
> generated from R.app, running the example from new package 'splots' ?
>

IMHO it's a bug in splots:

grid.rect(0.5, 0.5, 1, 1, gp = gpar(col = abris))
^-- this will fill the whole area with the default fill color which  
is white:
 > get.gpar()$fill
[1] "white"

I guess it should read
grid.rect(0.5, 0.5, 1, 1, gp = gpar(col = abris, fill=NULL))

Cheers,
Simon


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bioc-devel-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch on behalf of Steven  
> McKinney
> Sent: Wed 9/13/2006 12:21 PM
> To: Oleg Sklyar; bioc-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] splots -- new package announcement
>
> Hi Oleg,
>
> As I have some 96 well plate data to look at
> right now, I downloaded your package.
>
> Unfortunately I am having trouble on
> Mac OS X 10.4.7 and Rapp 2.3.1
>
> If I run your example,
>
>> data(splots.screen)
>> plotScreen(screen, 3)
>
> I get a Quartz screen with 12 grey
> rectangles, subtitled 'datasetnn',
> (nn = 1, 2, ... 12)
> all white otherwise.
>
> If I resize the screen, I briefly see coloured
> rectangles within the grey borders, but then white
> returns and all is blank.
>
> I also tried printing to a PDF file, which worked
> properly, so I can at least do that.
>
> Anyone have similar problems with other plots?
> Is this an Rapp/Quartz issue only?  Have I set up
> something inappropriately?
>
> Any insights appreciated.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>> version
>                _
> platform       powerpc-apple-darwin8.6.0
> arch           powerpc
> os             darwin8.6.0
> system         powerpc, darwin8.6.0
> status
> major          2
> minor          3.1
> year           2006
> month          06
> day            01
> svn rev        38247
> language       R
> version.string Version 2.3.1 (2006-06-01)
>
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>
> Steven McKinney
>
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>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bioc-devel-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch on behalf of Oleg Sklyar
> Sent: Wed 9/13/2006 7:32 AM
> To: bioc-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [Bioc-devel] splots -- new package announcement
>
> Hi all,
>
> a couple of weeks ago I submitted a yet tiny new package, splots, that
> aims to deliver different plotting routines for high-throughput  
> screens
> independently of analysis packages. The idea is too have a separate
> plotting package with a minimum dependencies that would allow for nice
> plots of screen-like data (what is currently done by parts of cellHTS,
> prada etc).
>
> The package has now passed through build/check and therefore I am
> announcing it.
>
> At the moment, the package contains one single function, plotScreen,
> which is a grid-graphics implementation of a similar function from
> cellHTS (credit to Ligia Breas for the idea!), and it stays this  
> way for
> the release. However I will add a couple of functions in the later  
> devel
> version as time allows.
>
> I would be really happy if the package attract not only users but
> developers as well. Feel free to participate in package development,
> adding new functions, or simply using it.
>
> Best,
> Oleg
>
> -- 
> Dr. Oleg Sklyar | EBI, Cambridge CB10 1SD, England | +44-1223-494466
>
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