[Rd] Bug in dev.print? (PR#1179)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

This now works in R-devel: it is the same as PR#1174 if you want to look
that up.

That you for the diagnosis: it's correct one, the bug being in the
internal clipping code, whereas postscript() clips in PostScript.


On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 dtrenkler@nts6.oec.uni-osnabrueck.de wrote:

> Dear "Debuggers",
>
> please have look a the following:
>
>
>
> > plot(0:1,0:1,type="n")
> > points(c(0,0.5,1),c(0,0.5,1))
> > dev.print(device = postscript, width=5 , height=5, file="test1.ps")
> windows
>       2
> >#  This worked
> > dev.print(device = pdf, width=5 , height=5, file="test1.pdf")
> windows
>       2
> >#  That also
> > plot(0:1,0:1,type="n" ,yaxs="i")
> > points(c(0,0.5,1),c(0,0.5,1))
> > dev.print(device = postscript, width=5 , height=5, file="test2.ps")
> windows
>       2
> >#  This worked. However:
> > dev.print(device = pdf, width=5 , height=5, file="test2.pdf")
> Error in dev.copy(device = function (file = ifelse(onefile, "Rplots.pdf",  :
>         negative length vectors are not allowed
> ># I guess the clipping of the points causes the error...
>
> Version:
>  platform = i386-pc-mingw32
>  arch = x86
>  os = Win32
>  system = x86, Win32
>  status =
>  major = 1
>  minor = 3.1
>  year = 2001
>  month = 08
>  day = 31
>  language = R
>
> Windows NT 4.0 (build 1381) Service Pack 6
>
> Search Path:
>  .GlobalEnv, package:ctest, Autoloads, package:base
>
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