Really belongs o R-SIG-Mac list and have copied it there. I cannot reproduce on my Mac. I get the same colors on the pdf file with that code as I do on the screen device. I have in in the past needed to set up a device before plotting: trellis.device(device="postscript", color = TRUE) ... but you are not using a trellis function or creating postscript.

What does  utils::str(pdf.options()) return?
On mine I get this
List of 15
 $ width      : num 7
 $ height     : num 7
 $ onefile    : logi TRUE
 $ family     : chr "Helvetica"
 $ title      : chr "R Graphics Output"
 $ fonts      : NULL
 $ version    : chr "1.4"
 $ paper      : chr "special"
 $ encoding   : chr "default"
 $ bg         : chr "transparent"
 $ fg         : chr "black"
 $ pointsize  : num 12
 $ pagecentre : logi TRUE
 $ colormodel : chr "rgb"
 $ useDingbats: logi TRUE


Perhaps this could be a cure?:
 pdf.options(colormodel = "rgb")

You probably ought to update as well before raising the bug-flag.

--
David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT


> sessionInfo()
R version 2.8.1 Patched (2009-01-19 r47650)
i386-apple-darwin9.6.0

locale:
en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] splines stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] termstrc_1.1    Design_2.1-2    Hmisc_3.5-2     survival_2.34-1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] cluster_1.11.12 grid_2.8.1      lattice_0.17-20 tools_2.8.1
On Mar 20, 2009, at 6:47 PM, heyi xiao wrote:





I lose control on colors when I plot points with pch=1 or 16
(empty or solid circle) or any letter, say "A". For example:



x=runif(5)

y=runif(5)

pdf("plot.pdf")

plot(x, y,
type='p', pch=1, col = 1:5) #just black points

plot(x, y,
type='p', pch=0, col = 1:5) #points with different colors

dev.off()



This problem occurred for different versions of R under Mac
OS X 10.4. not sure whether this is true for other operating systems. I used my most basic settings of R without any special package loaded. Any suggestions/ideas
would be appreciated.



sessionInfo()

R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)

powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.1



locale:

C



attached base packages:

[1] stats     graphics
grDevices utils     datasets  methods
base

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