From gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk  Thu Jan 22 16:52:15 2009
From: gavin.simpson at ucl.ac.uk (Gavin Simpson)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:52:15 +0000
Subject: [Rd] [R] pdf() and pch problems
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On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 15:08 +0000, Brian D Ripley wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Gavin Simpson wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 15:21 +0100, Martin Maechler wrote:
> >>>>>>> "TZ" == T Zumbrunn <T.Zumbrunn at unibas.ch>
> >>>>>>>     on Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:52:37 +0100 writes:
> >>
> >>     TZ> Quoting Brian D Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>:
> >>    >> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Robin Hankin wrote:
<snip />
> 
> > I'd be happy to patch any/all of those sources if someone in R Core
> > would be willing to take a lot and possibly apply them?
> 
> Send them to me and I'll take a look.

Thanks Brian,

Attached is a patch to pdf.Rd against the SVN trunk, revision 47685,
which modifies the emphasis in the useDingbats argument and adds
information about the workaround on unix systems only. Please edit/use
as you see fit.

If this is sufficient to document the issue and workaround I won't patch
R-admin.texi as there doesn't appear to be anywhere suitable to insert
this note in that file - most platform specific information appears to
pertain to /building/ R not tweaking your system to work around a
problem whilst using R.

In case the attachment gets mangled somewhere on long the line, you can
grab the patch from:

http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/files/pdf.Rd.patch

All the best,

Gavin

> 
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > G
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>    >>> le112:~/scratch/R-2.8.1% R --vanilla --quiet
> >>    >>>> pdf(file='~/f.pdf')
> >>    >>>> plot(1:10 , pch=1)
> >>    >>>> dev.off()
> >>    >>> null device
> >>    >>> 1
> >>    >>>> sessionInfo()
> >>    >>> R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
> >>    >>> i686-pc-linux-gnu
> >>    >>>
> >>    >>> locale:
> >>    >>> LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> >>    >>>
> >>    >>> attached base packages:
> >>    >>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> >>    >>> base    > q()
> >>    >>> le112:~/scratch/R-2.8.1%
> >>    >>>
> >>    >>>
> >>    >>>
> >>    >>>
> >>    >>>
> >>    >>>
> >>    >>>
> >>    >>>
> >>    >>> --
> >>    >>> Robin K. S. Hankin
> >>    >>> Uncertainty Analyst
> >>    >>> University of Cambridge
> >>    >>> 19 Silver Street
> >>    >>> Cambridge CB3 9EP
> >>    >>> 01223-764877
> >>    >>>
> >>    >>> ______________________________________________
> >>    >>> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> >>    >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> >>    >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> >>    >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> >>    >>>
> >>    >>
> >>    >> --
> >>    >> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at 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 272866 (PA)
> >>    >> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595
> >>    >>
> >>    >> ______________________________________________
> >>    >> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> >>    >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> >>    >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> >>    >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> >>
> >>     TZ> ______________________________________________
> >>     TZ> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> >>     TZ> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> >>     TZ> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> >>     TZ> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
> >>
> >> ______________________________________________
> >> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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[Rd] [R] pdf() and pch problems
Gavin Simpson