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

[Kasper Daniel Hansen]

Leopard, latest version, using Apples gcc 4.2. SVN version r50716

I get a crash (memory not mapped).  The traceback shows grid.Call("L_cap"), followed by .Call(fname, ...., package = "grid")

Kasper

On Dec 13, 2009, at 21:47 PM, Paul Murrell wrote:

> 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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