From: Prof Brian Ripley (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Wed 16 Jan 2002 - 18:27:20 EST
Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0201160725240.25567-100000@gannet.stats>
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Patrick Connolly wrote:
> According to Deepayan Sarkar:
> |>
> |>
> |>
> |> It's a known problem (with grid actually).
> |>
> |>
> |> --- Kieran Healy <kjhealy@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.
-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Thu 17 Jan 2002 - 11:10:11 EST