[R] Problem with clipping in Lattice, and closing a postscript device

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On Tuesday 26 April 2005 15:27, VU HA wrote:
> I would appreciate any answer to the following two problems I am
> having with the Lattice package.
>
> First, in most instances of using Lattice, the produced graphs have
> some clipping, usually at the borders of the encompassing rectangles.
> An example of this is here: http://cs.uwm.edu/~vu/lattice.pdf where
> the clipping occurs in the first half of the X axis.

I've never seen this type of problem before. I suspect using dev.off() 
as described below would solve this too.

> Second, when printing to a postscript file, for example, using the
> command
>
> trellis.device(postscript, file = "test.ps", color = TRUE)
>
> to initialize the output file and then the command
>
> dotplot(y ~ x | z, ...)
>
> to draw the graph, the postscript file test.ps still has zero size.
> If at this point I quit R, then test.ps will contain the output
> graphics. Is there a way to "flush" the trellis device without
> exiting R?

You have to use 

dev.off()

to properly finish creating a graphics file (this is true for R graphics 
in general, not just lattice).

Deepayan