Bob O'hara wrote: > I'm a bit reluctant to call anything a bug: I know it's usually my > incompetence instead. In this case, I can't see what else it is, > although it may be a bug in Windows. > > The problem comes from trying to create a .png of a figure in Windows > XP, with R2.1.0. On the screen it looks OK, but in the .png the text > for the x label is smaller than for the y label. The problem seems to > be created by using axes=F in plot(). Here's some code to demonstrate > the problem: > > XX=1:5; YY=1:5 > png("thing.png") > par(mfrow=c(2,1)) > plot(XX, YY, axes=F, xlab="X label", ylab="Y label") > plot(XX, YY, xlab="X label", ylab="Y label") > dev.off() > > I get a similar problem with bmp() and jpeg(), but not postscript() or > pdf(). If I draw the figure in the window in R and then save it as a > .png from the menu, the png looks fine. > > Everything works fine in R1.5.1 (I know, I know!) on Debian Linux, which > is why I'm reporting this as a Windows problem.
I see the problem in the first figure, and it's still there in a recent r-devel build. My test was also on Windows. Since png() uses the Windows graphics driver, it does look like an R bug in the Windows graphics driver, but I'd like to hear from someone on a different platform... Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel