This is my third attempt to send this message. Hopefully this one will go through. If anybody got my previous attempts (one with 3 attached PNG files and one with graph embedded in the message) I apologize for multiple postings.
I tried to illustrate this possible bug by including screenshots but it seems that these posts get blocked by something (r-devel-bounce?). Below I try to describe what happens in words. I have been compiling patched and development versions of R regularly. I started compiling R-10.0 alpha a couple of days ago and I think I discovered a bug in the "windows()" command. Here is what is happening:. 1. Just compiled the latest tarball. Before doing this I updated the R-tools to version 2.10 (includes jpeg-7). 2. Compilation went fine and I successfully built and ran the Windows installer. 3. I also successfully ran "make check-all". 4. I start R GUI and do "plot(1:10)". Here is what I get: The plot is missing bottom and right-hand side (both the axis and part of the box). The bottom is missing up to the third dot on the plot, i.e., the x-axis is missing together with the first three points. 5. When I go to File>Save As>Png... and go through the dialog box (choosing a file name) I get the following GUI error: A window pops up saying: "R for Windows GUI has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience". Closing this window causes R to crash. 6. When, before saving, I resize the graphics window with my mouse even by a very small amount, the plot changes to its normal look (without missing axes of plot.png) and I can save it with no problem. 7. When I do the same thing in just compiled 2.9.2 everything works fine and the plot (plot.png above) looks fine. 8. I suppose, all this is related to the following result of the "windows()" command: I get a window with the upper left chunk of it being dark gray and the remaining part, i.e., the bottom and the right-hand side being white. The white portions correspond to the missing parts of the plot described in 4. Again, resizing this window even slightly, fixes the problem - the whole window becomes dark gray. I am on the Windows XP SP2 machine. Here is the output of R.version: > R.version _ platform i386-pc-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 status alpha major 2 minor 10.0 year 2009 month 10 day 07 svn rev 49971 language R version.string R version 2.10.0 alpha (2009-10-07 r49971) Regards, Andy __________________________________ Andy Jaworski 518-1-01 Process Laboratory 3M Corporate Research Laboratory ----- E-mail: apjawor...@mmm.com Tel: (651) 733-6092 Fax: (651) 736-3122 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel