[R-SIG-Mac] Reminder: Please test the 2.9.0 beta/rc binaries!

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is not a bug (and nothing to do with the subject line).  You need 
to set 'ylab', e.g.

p2 <- list(x=rnorm(500), main='bug?', col='orange', type='l', ylab="")

Why?  Because the default is the deparse of 'x', and that is a long 
string.

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Steve Lianoglou wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Apr 8, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
>> I would like to remind everyone that we are in the final week of the beta 
>> testing of R 2.9.0, so please test the binaries now! There are installers 
>> for both the Tiger (32-bit) and Leopard (32-bit and 64-bit) binaries at
>> http://R.research.att.com/
>> 
>> Reporting bugs right *after* the release is pointless - that's why we are 
>> providing beta and rc builds, so please test them well before 4/17! Post 
>> any issues you have with it here.
>
> Sorry I can't test this directly since I'm in the middle of doing some 
> analysis and don't want to install 2.9 and have something explode. But it 
> seems like I've hit a bug in R in general (I'm primarily on a mac, but just 
> tested on one of your linux servers (also R 2.8.1), and the same is 
> happening).
>
> R> p2 <- list(x=rnorm(500), main='bug?', col='orange', type='l')
> R> do.call(plot, p2)
>
> You see that all of the data points are *written* on the graphics device.

Hmm, you mean their numeric values are written as the y label,

> if x are ints, I don't get this problem:
>
> R> p3 <- list(x=1:500, main='bug?', col='orange', type='l')
> R> do.call(plot, p3)

They are still written as the y label, in a compact form.  Nothing to 
do with being 'ints', rather a colon sequence.

> If you have all ints + 1 double, the problem appears:
>
> R> p4 <- list(x=c(1:500, .5), main='bug?', col='orange', type='l')
> R> do.call(plot,p4)
>
> Is this a known bug, or am I doing something boneheaded?
>
> R> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.8.1 Patched (2009-01-07 r47515)
> i386-apple-darwin9.6.0
>
> locale:
> en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> Thanks,
> -steve
>
> --
> Steve Lianoglou
> Graduate Student: Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology
> Weill Medical College of Cornell University
>
> http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos
>
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