[Rd] Re: Bug#213857: r-base-core: xfig plot fails with invalid line type (PR#4401)

[Douglas Bates]

edd at debian.org writes:

> Graham,
> 
> Confirmed. I will pass that along to the R team. As 1.8.0 is in code freeze,
> this may not get addressed, unfortunately.
> 
> Regards, Dirk

I believe Ross Ihaka has already detected and fixed this problem.  The
fix should be in today's beta version of R-1.8.0.  We hope it will
show up in the next Debian package Dirk makes for the unstable
(Debian) distribution.

> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:16:35PM +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
> > Package: r-base-core
> > Version: 1.7.1.cvs.20030927-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > 
> > $ R
> > 
> > R : Copyright 2003, The R Development Core Team
> > Version 1.8.0 beta (2003-09-27)
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > > data(cars)
> > > postscript("tmp.ps")
> > > plot(cars)
> > > xfig("tmp.fig", onefile=TRUE)
> > > plot(cars)
> > Error in plot.xy(xy, type, col = col, pch = pch, cex = cex, bg = bg, lty = lty,  : 
> > 	invalid line type: must be length 2, 4, 6 or 8
> > > 
> > 
> > No output is produced. 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Graham
> > 
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: testing/unstable
> > Architecture: i386
> > Kernel: Linux festiva.act.cmis.csiro.au 2.4.22-1-686 #4 Sun Sep 28 13:27:15 EST 2003 i686
> > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
> > 
> > Versions of packages r-base-core depends on:
> > ii  atlas2-base [atlas2]      3.2.1ln-11     Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra
> > ii  libbz2-1.0                1.0.2-1        A high-quality block-sorting file 
> > ii  libc6                     2.3.2-8        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> > ii  libg2c0                   1:3.3.2-0pre4  Runtime library for GNU Fortran 77
> > ii  libgcc1                   1:3.3.2-0pre4  GCC support library
> > ii  libjpeg62                 6b-8           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
> > ii  libncurses5               5.3.20030719-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand
> > ii  libpcre3                  4.3-3          Philip Hazel's Perl 5 Compatible R
> > ii  libpng10-0                1.0.15-4       PNG library, older version - runti
> > ii  libreadline4              4.3-5          GNU readline and history libraries
> > ii  perl                      5.8.1-2        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
> > ii  tcl8.4                    8.4.4-1        Tcl (the Tool Command Language) v8
> > ii  tk8.4                     8.4.4-1        Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11, v8.4 -
> > ii  xlibs                     4.2.1-11       X Window System client libraries
> > ii  zlib-bin                  1:1.1.4-15     compression library - sample progr
> > ii  zlib1g                    1:1.1.4-15     compression library - runtime
> > 
> > -- no debconf information
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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