[R] tiff()-bug (was re:Preparing high quality figures with tiff as end result)

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Wed Jun 25 15:16:08 CEST 2008


On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Peng Jiang wrote:

> Hi , Gustaf
> i don't know why but it works pretty well on a mac.

with completely different code.

Gustaf Rydevik has mentioned this before -- it never fails for me on 
Windows and hence one would not expect there to be a change in 2.7.1. 
Only if someone can reproduce it under a debugger have we a chance of 
tracking it down.

> regards .
> On 2008-6-25, at 下午4:16, Uwe Ligges wrote:
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>> Gustaf Rydevik wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> A while back I sent a message concerning working with tiff-files, and
>>> mentioned that I encountered a bug in 2.7.0.
>>> This bug still occurs in 2.7.1, and is reproducable on a separate
>>> computer (both running WinXP professional):
>>> tiff()
>>> plot(1:1000)
>>> dev.off()
>>> This causes R to show the window "R GUI has encountered a problem and
>>> needs to close".
>>> Can anyone else out there reproduce this, so I can file a bug report?
>> 
>> Yes. Confirmed.
>> 
>> Uwe Ligges
>> 
>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Gustaf Rydevik
>>> -------------------------------------------
>>>> sessionInfo()
>>> R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
>>> i386-pc-mingw32
>>> locale:
>>> LC_COLLATE=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_CTYPE=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_MONETARY=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Swedish_Sweden.1252
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>> other attached packages:
>>> [1] RWinEdt_1.8-0
>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>> [1] tools_2.7.1
>>> 
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> Peng Jiang
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