[R-SIG-Mac] Dashed line not evenly separated

Thu Feb 24 02:39:07 CET 2022

I agree it is a bug, my suggestion was for a temporary fix.

Ken

> On 24 Feb 2022, at 12:30 pm, John Fox <jfox using mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> 
> Dear Ken,
> 
> Yes, but I believe that it *should* work even in a small window. For example, the following produces a proper broken line on Windows but not on macOS:
> 
>  pdf(width=3, height=3)
>  plot(log10(1:1e4), lty = 2, type="l")
>  dev.off()
> 
> Best,
> John
> 
> On 2022-02-23 6:26 p.m., Ken Beath wrote:
>> This works properly if the plot window is made wider.
>> Ken
>>> On 24 Feb 2022, at 10:13 am, Zhang, Jialin via R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac using r-project.org <mailto:r-sig-mac using r-project.org>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Yes, thank you John for the observation. Your code shows the same behavior on my Intel Mac as well.
>>> 
>>> Could anyone help make it look normal? Thanks!
>>> 
>>> �
>>> 
>>> Jialin Zhang (JZ), Assistant Professor of Statistics
>>> Department of Mathematics and Statistics
>>> Mississippi State University
>>> tel: (662) 325-7137; email:jzhang using math.msstate.edu <mailto:jzhang using math.msstate.edu><mailto:jzhang using math.msstate.edu <mailto:jzhang using math.msstate.edu>>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> From: John Fox <jfox using mcmaster.ca <mailto:jfox using mcmaster.ca>>
>>> Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 5:11 PM
>>> To: Daniel Kelley <Dan.Kelley using Dal.Ca <mailto:Dan.Kelley using Dal.Ca>>, Zhang, Jialin <jzhang using math.msstate.edu <mailto:jzhang using math.msstate.edu>>
>>> Cc:r-sig-mac using r-project.org <mailto:r-sig-mac using r-project.org><r-sig-mac using r-project.org <mailto:r-sig-mac using r-project.org>>
>>> Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Dashed line not evenly separated
>>> Dear Jialin Zhang and Dan,
>>> 
>>> You can simplify the example to
>>> 
>>> plot(log10(1:1e4), lty = 2, type="l")
>>> 
>>> and observe the same behaviour -- in my case on an M1 Mac.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> John
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 2022-02-23 5:56 p.m., Daniel Kelley wrote:
>>>> I get the same, on an intel mac with the same R and macOS monterey 12.3-beta.
>>>> 
>>>> I also get that if I just plot() the thing you're using lines() for. I am guessing that it's a problem with the fact that the data get very close together towards the right-hand part of the plot. That should not be a problem, of course; this seems like a bug.
>>>> 
>>>> Dan Kelley / Dept. Oceanography / Dalhousie University / Canada
>>>> 
>>>> On Feb 23, 2022, at 6:41 PM, Zhang, Jialin via R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac using r-project.org <mailto:r-sig-mac using r-project.org><mailto:r-sig-mac using r-project.org <mailto:r-sig-mac using r-project.org>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> CAUTION: The Sender of this email is not from within Dalhousie.
>>>> Hello Mac experts,
>>>> 
>>>> I wrote the following code on my Mac but the resulting plot has a weird dashed line. Here are the codes:
>>>> 
>>>> zeta.ppt <- function(v){
>>>> ppt=function(i){
>>>> result <- numeric(length(i))
>>>> for (j in i){
>>>> if (j < 11) {result[j] <- (11-j)/110}
>>>> else {result[j] <- 3/pi^2/(j-10)^2}
>>>> }
>>>> result
>>>> }
>>>> p <- ppt(1:10000)
>>>> printout <- numeric(length(v))
>>>> for (k in 1:length(v)) {
>>>> printout[k] <- sum(p*(1-p)^v[k])
>>>> }
>>>> printout
>>>> }
>>>> zeta.sept <- function(v){
>>>> sept=function(i){
>>>> result <- numeric(length(i))
>>>> for (j in i){
>>>> if (j < 11) {result[j] <- (11-j)/110}
>>>> else {result[j] <- 0.5/1.670407*exp(-sqrt(j-10))}
>>>> }
>>>> result
>>>> }
>>>> p <- sept(1:10000)
>>>> printout <- numeric(length(v))
>>>> for (k in 1:length(v)) {
>>>> printout[k] <- sum(p*(1-p)^v[k])
>>>> }
>>>> printout
>>>> }
>>>> tau.ppt <- function(v){
>>>> v*zeta.ppt(v)
>>>> }
>>>> tau.sept <- function(v){
>>>> v*zeta.sept(v)
>>>> }
>>>> plot(log(tau.ppt(1:20000))~log(1:20000), xlim = c(0,10), ylim=c(0, 5), axes = F, ylab = "", xlab = "", type = "l")
>>>> lines(log(tau.sept(1:20000))~log(1:20000), lty = 2, type = "l")
>>>> box()
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Here is the plot I got:
>>>> <image001.png>
>>>> 
>>>> As we could observe, the end portion of the dashed line is almost a solid line. I posted the question onhttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/71241028/plot-line-types-in-r <onhttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/71241028/plot-line-types-in-r> as well and seems they can run my codes with perfect dashed line on Windows OS.
>>>> 
>>>> I have tried it on both intel Mac and M1 Mac, both gave me weird dashed lines. I have tried it in both R and RStudio. Here is my sessionsInfo:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>> 
>>>> R version 4.1.2 (2021-11-01)
>>>> 
>>>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0 (64-bit)
>>>> 
>>>> Running under: macOS Monterey 12.2.1
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Matrix products: default
>>>> 
>>>> LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> locale:
>>>> 
>>>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> attached base packages:
>>>> 
>>>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>> 
>>>> [1] compiler_4.1.2 tools_4.1.2
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Please advise. Thank you!
>>>> 
>>>> �
>>>> 
>>>> Jialin Zhang (JZ), Assistant Professor of Statistics
>>>> Department of Mathematics and Statistics
>>>> Mississippi State University
>>>> tel: (662) 325-7137; email: jzhang using math.msstate.edu <mailto:jzhang using math.msstate.edu><mailto:jzhang using math.msstate.edu <mailto:jzhang using math.msstate.edu>>
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