From chuck at sharpsteen.net  Wed Jan 11 19:11:19 2012
From: chuck at sharpsteen.net (Sharpie)
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:11:19 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Rd] Inconsistencies in device_Raster when axes are reflected
Message-ID: <1326305479642-4286320.post@n4.nabble.com>

I noticed some undocumented and inconsistent behavior in device_Raster when a
plot is produced with reflected axes such as:

    image(volcano, xlim = c(1,0), useRaster = TRUE)
    image(volcano, ylim = c(1,0), useRaster = TRUE)

The `pdf` device will perform horizontal and vertical reflections, while
`quartz` will ignore the transformations when plotting to the screen, but
when plotting to a file, `quartz(file = 'test.pdf', type = 'pdf')`, it will
produce horizontal reflections and ignore vertical ones.

When the `xlim` or `ylim` is reversed, negative widths and heights are
passed to the C function `device_Raster`, which is not a behavior documented
in `R_ext/GraphicsDevice.h`. Also, the values of `x` and `y` passed to
`device_Raster` will be shifted by the width or height of the image such
that the coordinates no longer reference the bottom-left corner of the image
as `R_ext/GraphicsDevice.h` says they should.

Given the inconsistencies in documentation and behavior, I am wondering what
the intended behavior of `device_Raster` is in this situation.

Thanks!

-Charlie

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Charlie Sharpsteen
Undergraduate-- Environmental Resources Engineering
Humboldt State University
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