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

[Simon Urbanek]

On Dec 14, 2009, at 14:25 , Paul Murrell wrote:

> Hi
>
>
> Simon Urbanek wrote:
>> Oops, I was so focused on things breaking in SL that I missed that   
>> this one breaks on Leopard only :)
>> Anyway, yes, the exact same binary breaks on Leopard:
>> Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0x168c8001
>> QuartzCocoa_Cap (dev=0x921d80, userInfo=0x9210f0)  
>> at ../../../../../../ R-devel/src/library/grDevices/src/qdCocoa.m:774
>> 774	            rint[i] = ((screenData[i*4 + 2]) |
>> (gdb) bt
>> #0  QuartzCocoa_Cap (dev=0x921d80, userInfo=0x9210f0)   
>> at ../../../../../../R-devel/src/library/grDevices/src/qdCocoa.m:774
>> #1  0x00ce7b44 in RQuartz_Cap (dd=0x91d000) at ../../../../../../R-  
>> devel/src/library/grDevices/src/devQuartz.c:1033
>> #2  0x00cab6dc in L_cap () at ../../../../../../R-devel/src/ 
>> library/ grid/src/grid.c:2851
>> I'll nave a look after I'm done with the 2.10.1 release...
>
>
> That'd be great.  Thanks.
>

The crash is fixed, but there are IMHO serious issues with the  
infrastructure. More in separate e-mail...

Cheers,
Simon


>
>
>> Cheers,
>> Simon
>> On Dec 14, 2009, at 10:04 , Simon Urbanek wrote:
>>> On Dec 13, 2009, at 21:47 , 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
>>>>
>>> It works for me w/o problems:
>>> Mac OS X 10.6.2 (10C540)
>>> [R.app GUI 1.31 (5536) i386-apple-darwin9.8.0] (also directly)
>>> R version 2.11.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-12-13 r50716)
>>> i386-apple-darwin9.8.0
>>>
>>> locale:
>>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>>
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] grid      stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets    
>>> methods   base
>>>
>>> (official Leopard build from r.research.att.com)
>>>
>>> So if you can replicate this, please either a) get a full stack   
>>> trace or b) specify exactly how you configure R, compilers,  
>>> locale  etc. Also make sure you don't have some old library with R  
>>> packages  around.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Simon
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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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>>>> Department of Statistics
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> Dr Paul Murrell
> Department of Statistics
> The University of Auckland
> Private Bag 92019
> Auckland
> New Zealand
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> paul at stat.auckland.ac.nz
> http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/
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