From p.murrell at auckland.ac.nz  Tue Jun 15 05:54:19 2004
From: p.murrell at auckland.ac.nz (Paul Murrell)
Date: Tue Jun 15 05:57:56 2004
Subject: [Rd] trellis.device in .First (PR#6812)
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406140727040.21931-100000@gannet.stats>
Message-ID: <40CE72EB.6010503@stat.auckland.ac.nz>

Hi


Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Paul Murrell wrote:
> 
> 
>>Could we avoid the user-disruption problem by making a new 
>>graphicsDevices package (to contain postscript(), x11(), ps.options(), 
>>...) and have the graphics package import these symbols from 
>>graphicsDevices AND export them (this is technically feasible with the 
>>current NAMESPACE implementation right?).  Then existing users wouldn't 
>>have to change their hooks, but grid could import directly from 
>>graphicsDevices, not via graphics.
> 
> 
> I believe that is possible.  Are you going to try it?


Yep.  I'll give it a go.

Paul
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[Rd] trellis.device in .First (PR#6812)
Paul Murrell