The example in the help file for pdf() plots the characters outside the plotting area in this for loop:
for(i in c(32:255)) { x <- i y <- i points(x, y, pch=i) } The following loop seems to be working as intended for(i in c(32:255)) { x <- (i-31)%%16 y <- (i-31)%/%16 points(x, y, pch=i) } As an extra observation, with code page ISOLatin2, the pdf-file fails to open in Ghostview 4.7 using ghostscript 8.51. Error message below. In Acrobat Reader 7.0 it opens without problems. It is quite possible that it is the settings on my computer that causes the error, but I include the dump of the error message, just in case anybody was interested Best regards Erik Jørgensen Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences --please do not edit the information below-- Version: platform = i386-pc-mingw32 arch = i386 os = mingw32 system = i386, mingw32 status = major = 2 minor = 1.1 year = 2005 month = 06 day = 20 language = R Windows XP Professional (build 2600) Service Pack 2.0 Locale: LC_COLLATE=Danish_Denmark.1252;LC_CTYPE=Danish_Denmark.1252;LC_MONETARY=Danish_Denmark.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Danish_Denmark.1252 Search Path: .GlobalEnv, package:lattice, package:methods, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, Autoloads, package:base ------------------- GSview 4.7 2005-03-26 AFPL Ghostscript 8.51 (2005-04-18) Copyright (C) 2005 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Scanning PDF file %GSVIEW_PDF_PAGES: 1 1 Displaying PDF page 1 %GSVIEW_PDF_PAGE: 1 %GSVIEW_PDF_MEDIA: [0 0 432 432] %GSVIEW_PDF_ROTATE: 0 Loading NimbusSanL-Regu font from c:\gs\fonts/n019003l.pfb... 2291320 946479 1594968 288125 3 done. Error: /typecheck in --lt-- Operand stack: --dict:4/4(L)-- F2 1 --dict:5/5(L)-- --dict:5/5(L)-- --dict:15/16(ro)(G)-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 1 --nostringval-- 1 --nostringval-- Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- %array_continue --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push --nostringval-- %loop_continue --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- %array_continue --nostringval-- Dictionary stack: --dict:1129/1686(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:79/200(L)-- --dict:105/127(ro)(G)-- --dict:251/347(ro)(G)-- --dict:21/24(L)-- --dict:4/6(L)-- --dict:20/20(L)-- --dict:10/13(L)-- Current allocation mode is local pdf_page failed ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel