[R-SIG-Mac] new raster image support in r-devel

[Paul Murrell]

Hi

In the *development* version of R, there are two new functions, 
grid.raster() and grid.cap(), in the 'grid' package, which draw (and 
capture) raster (bitmap) images
(see http://developer.r-project.org/Raster/raster-RFC.html)

There has been a report that this is not working on the quartz() device 
on MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard?), specifically i386-apple-darwin9.8.0

The test is simply ...

library(grid)
quartz()
grid.text("test")
cap <- grid.cap()
# Crash and burn

If anyone has a system like this, and is happy to install the 
development version of R on that system, I would appreciate a 
confirmation of this problem.

Thanks for any help

Paul
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