[Rd] Re: [R] Printing Lattice Graphs from Windows (PR#6948)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

It does *not* help to generate a new bug report when replying to a message 
to R-devel: please be more careful.  The PR number is PR#6947.

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 spencer.graves at pdf.com wrote:

> Hi, Duncan: 
> 
>       I just did "plot(1:2)" in Rgui.exe, and that copied fine as a 
> metafile into MS Word via the clipboard. 
> 
>       Then I exited and restarted Rterm.exe under ESS and tried it 
> again.  This time, I got a blank image copied into MS Word.  However, 

A blank image from "plot(1:2)"?  That's news.  As I have now posted twice, 
there is something random here (probably depending on some uninitialized 
variable), so only the results of repeated testing are of any value.

> after I modified the Lattice defaults via, 
> "trellis.par.set('background', list('white')); 
> trellis.par.set('plot.symbol',  list(cex=0.8, col=1, font=1, pch=1))", I 
> was able to copy the results of "xyplot(1~1)" as a metafile into Word.  
> Unfortunately, when I tried modifying the Lattice defaults the same way 
> under Rgui.exe. I again got a blank image copied into Word. 
> 
>       hope this helps.  spencer graves
> 
> #######################
> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 15:00:52 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> >But isn't it a bug in the windows version of R if the Rgui.exe cannot copy
> >to the clipboard where Rterm.exe can?
> >  
> >
> 
> Yes, definitely.  Can someone distill this down to code that uses only
> the base packages (e.g. just grid)?  Lattice is a recommended package,
> so I'd refer you to its maintainer, but it's probably something in a
> base package that's going wrong.
> 
> Once you've done that, please submit it as a bug report with
> reproducible code.  I've never looked at the Windows metafile device
> driver, so it's unlikely I'll fix this by 1.9.1, but it is something
> that should be fixed.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
> Spencer Graves wrote:
> 
> >      I agree:  It sounds like a  bug, as you said, Irk, in that 
> > Rgui.exe cannot copy a metafile to the clipboard, at least under MS 
> > Windows 2000, 5.00.2195, Service Pack 3, even though Rterm.exe can.  
> > Therefore, I'm including "r-bugs at biostat.ku.dk" in the list of 
> > addresses to this email.
> >      Spencer Graves
> >
> > Irk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 12:26:45PM -0700, Spencer Graves wrote:
> >>  
> >>
> >>>     Using R 1.9.1 alpha via XEmacs with ESS under Windows 2000, I 
> >>> did the following:
> >>>     library(lattice)
> >>>     xyplot(1~1)
> >>>
> >>>     I got the plot in a separate window, from which I did File -> 
> >>> Copy to the clipboard -> as a metafile.  I then changed to MS Word, 
> >>> and it pasted fine.   
> >>
> >>
> >> Ok.
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >>>     When I started R 1.9.1 alpha directly (without XEmacs) and tried 
> >>> the same thing, I got a standard lattice plot.  However, when I 
> >>> tried File -> Copy to the clipboard -> as a metafile, I got a blank 
> >>> plot when copying into MS Word.  When I copied as a bitmap, it came 
> >>> through fine.  However, I suspect that is unacceptable.   
> >>
> >>
> >> Not ok.
> >> But isn't it a bug in the windows version of R if the Rgui.exe cannot 
> >> copy
> >> to the clipboard where Rterm.exe can?
> >>
> >> I may be missing some subtle detail, though...
> >> Irk
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >
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