From murdoch.duncan at gmail.com  Thu Mar 15 11:54:26 2012
From: murdoch.duncan at gmail.com (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:54:26 -0400
Subject: [Rd] windows() device: plot does not refresh with new drawing
 after opening and closing a new device
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On 12-03-15 2:29 AM, Michael Sumner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I see this problem in 2.14.1, a recent dev, and 2.15.0 alpha, but not
> in an older build.
>
> Start the R windows console and run this code:
>
> plot(1:10);windows();dev.off();points(10:1)
>
> The second set of points does not show up until the window is
> minimized and restored.

Definitely looks like a bug.  I'll see if I can track it down.

Duncan Murdoch

>
> If the device is replaced with a file-based one (pdf, png) there's no problem.
>
> I see this behaviour on these versions:
>
>    R version 2.15.0 alpha (2012-03-13 r58726)
>    Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
>    R Under development (unstable) (2012-02-28 r58513)
>    Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
>    R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
>    Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
> I have an old beta install of 2.13.2 where the problem does not occur:
>
>    R version 2.13.2 beta (2011-09-22 r57035)
>    Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
> Cheers, Mike.
>
>



[Rd] windows() device: plot does not refresh with new drawing after opening and closing a new device
Duncan Murdoch