From jari.oksanen at oulu.fi  Tue Dec 14 16:59:23 2010
From: jari.oksanen at oulu.fi (Jari Oksanen)
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:59:23 +0200
Subject: [Rd] postscript failure manifests in plot.TukeyHSD
Message-ID: <C92D60FB.142C5%jari.oksanen@oulu.fi>

Hello R Developers,

Dear R-developers, 

I ran some standard tests with currently (today morning) compiled R release
candidate in Linux R 2.12.1 RC (2010-12-13 r53843). Some of these tests used
plot.TukeyHSD function. This worked OK on the screen (X11 device), but
PostScript file could not be rendered. The following example had the problem
with me:

postscript(file="tukeyplot.ps")
example(plot.TukeyHSD)
dev.off()

I couldn't view the resulting file with evince in Linux nor in the standard
Preview in MacOS. When I compared the generated "tukeyplot.ps" to the same
file generated with an older R in my Mac, I found one difference:

$ diff -U2 oldtukeyplot.ps /Volumes/TIKKU/tukeyplot.ps
--- oldtukeyplot.ps    2010-12-14 12:06:07.000000000 +0200
+++ /Volumes/TIKKU/tukeyplot.ps    2010-12-14 12:13:32.000000000 +0200
@@ -172,5 +172,5 @@
 0 setgray
 0.00 setlinewidth
-[ 3.00 5.00] 0 setdash
+[ 0.00 0.00] 0 setdash
 np
 660.06 91.44 m

Editing the changed line to its old value "[ 3.00 5.00] 0 setdash" also
fixed the problem both in Linux and in Mac. Evidently something has changed,
and probably somewhere else than in plot.TukeyHSD (which hasn't changed
since r51093 in trunk and never in R-2-12-branch). I know nothing about
PostScript so that I cannot say anything more (and I know viewers can fail
with standard conforming PostScript but it is a bit disconcerting that two
viewers fail when they worked earlier).

Cheers, Jari Oksanen



[Rd] postscript failure manifests in plot.TukeyHSD
Jari Oksanen