[R] Postsript/Lattice interaction

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Patrick Connolly wrote:

> According to Deepayan Sarkar:
> |>
> |>
> |>
> |> It's a known problem (with grid actually).
> |>
> |>
> |> --- Kieran Healy <kjhealy at arizona.edu> wrote:
> |> > Hello --
> |> >
> |> > I'm using R-1.4.0 on a PC running SuSE Linux 7.1. Following Christian
> |> > Ritter's announcement this morning, I downloaded the new versions of
> |> > lattice and grid. I find that loading the lattice library causes
> |> > postcript() to include a blank first page when creating a file. Like
>
> Now I'm confused again.  I had this problem with an earlier version of
> grid but not with Version: 0.2 dated: 2000/11/07.  I did have to
> specify bg = "white" when color = FALSE otherwise I'd get a pale grey
> background but that's not a great problem.
>
> Am I to understand that the fix that was made in 0.2 is now broken
> again?  (I'm still using 1.3.1.)

grid 0.5 is quite different from 0.2: it relies on changes made to the
graphics drivers shipped with R.

Yes, grid 0.5 gives an empty first page when opening a device. Paul
Murrell will fix it when he has time.


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