[Rd] default symbol in plots changed in R-Devel for windows

Prof Brian D Ripley ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Mon, 26 Nov 2001 15:42:22 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)


This is a known transitory bug, which I found late yesterday.  You'll find
R_ALPHA at one place in your devga.c.  Change it to R_OPAQUE.

We've been having some problems as a result of extensive graphics changes
from Paul.  If tonight's snapshot works correctly, it will have this fixed.

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Uwe Ligges wrote:

> I did some test on WinXP and of course one of these was compiling and
> starting R (good "news": It works).
>
> To my surprise the default plotting character changed from the well
> known empty circle to a black *FILLED* circle in the windows and bitmap
> devices, but not so on the postscript and pdf devices.
>
> Taking a closer look to more symbols shows that some symbols changed
> from filled to unfilled ones and others from unfilled to filled. Is this
> intended or just a fact the status "in development" of R-1.4.0?
> Or maybe it is an interaction with the changes on transparent
> backgrounds?
>
> It happens with R
>  Version 1.4.0 Under development (unstable) (2001-11-25)
> on Windows NT 4.0 (SP6) and Windows XP, but not so on Solaris.
>
> Best,
> Uwe
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