Changes from grid_0.6 to grid_0.7: ------------------------------------ 1. The web pages for grid have moved to ... http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/grid/grid.html 2. Mathematical annotation is now available in grid. Wherever grid expects a string, an expression may be used instead. This covers not only producing mathematical annotation output, but also correctly calculating width and height of expressions, and checking for overlapping expressions. 3. If you try to save/load a grid grob, it will now fail gracefully rather than seg faulting. 4. If you save a display list containing grid output, then detach grid, then try to run the display list again, it will now fail gracefully rather than seg faulting. 5. All gpar() settings can now be vectors. Well, they could always be vectors, but now values other than the first one will have an effect. This will not happen in all contexts, for example, viewports will only take notice of the first value in each setting, but for graphics functions where multiple items can be output, multiple settings may be sensibly given. Some examples are: # multiple points with different colours grid.points(1:10/11, 1:10/11, gp=gpar(col=1:10)) # multiple segments with different colours grid.segments(1:10/11, 0, 1:10/11, 1, gp=gpar(col=1:10)) # multiple points with different sizes grid.points(1:10/11, 1:10/11, size=unit(1:10, "mm")) # multiple pieces of text with different font sizes grid.text(1:10, x=1:10/11, gp=gpar(fontsize=10:20)) # multiple rects with different lineheights (and height is in "lines") grid.rect(width=.05, x=1:10/11, height=unit(1, "mylines"), gp=gpar(lineheight=1:10)) 6. (Because of a fix to R/src/main/engine.c ...) Multiple-line text (i.e., text with "\n"s in it) is now correctly spaced vertically (i.e., takes notice of the current value of "fontsize"). NOTE, however, that multiple-line text still takes no notice of the current value of "lineheight". 7. Fixed a bug in grid.layout(). It was the case that, if you entered widths or heights which were not unit objects, they were not converted properly to unit objects. 8. Modified the defaulting of "just" arguments when a single value is provided. See the new example in grid.text. 9. Fixed a bug where grid.points(pch=NULL) would cause a crash. This now defaults pch to the value 1. 10. Fixed a bug where layout matrix respect was not being applied to the correct cell. For example, the following caused the cell 1,3 to be respected rather than 1,2 ... lt.resp <- matrix(0, 2, 3) lt.resp[1,2] <- 1 grid.show.layout(grid.layout(2, 3, respect = lt.resp)) Reported by Deepayan Sarkar. Changes from grid_0.5-1 to grid_0.6: ------------------------------------ 1. Some internal changes to speed up creation of unit objects. This may have a noticeable effect on drawing legends and anything that relies on grid frames (e.g., "key"s in lattice). 2. A couple of bug fixes for "grobwidth" and "grobheight" units. Symptoms were legends not being allocated the correct amount of space. Thanks to Deepayan Sarkar and Peter Kleiweg for help diagnosing the bug and testing the fix. 3. Added plotViewport() and dataViewport() convenience function for creating a viewport that has the typical layout of an R plot. 4. Altered viewport() function so that layout.pos.row and layout.pos.col can be specified as a sequence and only the range() of that sequence is used. 5. Removed most documentation from the package to reduce the download size. The user's guide and changes file are included with the tar ball, but the other documents are only available via http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/PEOPLE/paul/grid/grid.html Also changed the format of the user's guide from postscript to pdf. 6. Fixed bug in unit.length where the length of a unit.arithmetic object was calculated incorrectly if the length() of the scalar multiplier was longer than the unit.length() of the unit object being multiplied. 7. Allowed character settings for pch in grid.points() 8. The crash on Windows platforms when plot history is turned on has been fixed in R version 1.5. This fix means that grid_0.6 will only run on R version >= 1.5.0 9. Added handling of NULL values for gpar elements. Except for col and fill, this now means the same as specifying no setting at all for the element -- previous behaviour was a segfault. Changes from grid_0.5 to grid_0.5-1: ------------------------------------ 1. Fix for some grid bugs. The problems were: (i) grid output could not be saved in metafile format (ii) non-grid output could not be saved in metafile format when grid was loaded (iii) empty page at start of grid postscript output (iv) empty page at start of non-grid postscript output when grid was loaded (v) copying grid output from x11 to postscript (dev.copy) produced blank pages in postscript These problems were due to two things in grid: (i) grid created a new page whenever a new device was started. (ii) grid created a new page whenever the display list was replayed (e.g., when a device was resized or the output was copied from one device to another) Grid now only creates a new page the first time grid output is produced on a device AND only creates a new page for replaying the display list IF there has already been grid output on the device. Changes from grid_0.2 to grid_0.5: ---------------------------------- 1. R has a new device API and a new graphics engine. Grid uses these. This means that this version will NOT work on R versions before 1.4.0 Another known "bug" is that this version of grid will crash R if used in Windows with plot history recording turned on (although "add"ing individual grid "plots" to the plot history should still work). 2. Added "mystrwidth" and "mystrheight" units; basically these just complete the set of units which depend on font, fontsize, and/or lineheight and therefore may refer to the current viewport settings of these parameters OR to the current settings of the grob being drawn. 3. Added unit.rep function (the base rep() function is not generic so I could not simply write a rep.unit method). 4. Added new gpar, "gamma", for gamma-correction of colours (defaults to 1). NOTE that only windows devices will currently respond to on-the-fly changes in gamma. 5. Added "clip" flag to viewports. If "clip" is TRUE, then output is clipped to the viewport. Clipping obeys only the most recent viewport clip setting. For example, if you clip to viewport1, then clip to viewport2, the clipping region is determined wholly by viewport2, the size and shape of viewport1 is irrelevant (until viewport2 is popped of course). If a viewport is rotated (because of its own "angle" setting or because it is within another viewport which is rotated) then the "clip" flag is ignored. 6. The functions grid.start() and grid.stop() have been removed. grid automatically "registers" with devices. 7. Grid no longer automatically opens a device when it is loaded. Instead, a device is created, if there are none open, when the first drawing occurs or when the first viewport is pushed. 8. Added new functions unit.pmin() and unit.pmax() which are unit versions of pmax() and pmin() 9. Added new function grid.place() which provides a simpler interface to grid.pack() and is useful for using grid "frame"s as just a convenient way of defining a layout and sticking things in it. Changes from grid_0.1 to grid_0.2: ---------------------------------- 1. Fixed bug in rotating viewports; this should be more reliable now. 2. Added grid.line.to() and grid.move.to(). These allow drawing BETWEEN different coordinate systems. See example in inst/doc/demo3.ps. 3. Added some more demonstrations to the doc directory. 4. Added more test code to the tests directory. 5. Added "grobwidth" and "grobheight" units. See the document grid/inst/doc/advanced/parentchild.ps 6. Added more detailed documentation to grid/inst/doc/advanced. This stuff is not as friendly for the reader, but may be useful if you're tearing your hair out wondering why some strange effect is occurring. 7. Changed frames and packing to use the new "grobwidth" and "grobheight" units. This fixes some problems with frames and packing. 8. Fixed a bug where the gpar settings for "fontsize" and "lineheight" _within a grob_ would not affect the location or size of the grob if they were specified in "lines" or "char" units. This required adding new "mylines" and "mychar" units (alternative suggestions for names welcome !) so that you can specify whether a grob's a location/size is in terms of the current viewport's fontsize and lineheight ("lines" and "char") or in terms of its own fontsize and lineheight ("mylines" and "mychar"). 9. Added grid.polygon() and grid.circle() primitives 10. Added newpage=TRUE argument to grid.start() so that you can restart grid graphics mode without having to move to a new page. For example, try ... postscript() grid.start() grid.polygon() grid.stop() grid.start() # moves to new page grid.circle() grid.stop() grid.start(newpage=FALSE) # does NOT move to new page grid.rect() grid.stop() dev.off() 11. Changed interface for pop.viewport(). This now just takes a number of viewports to pop, which defaults to 1. For example ... push.viewport(viewport()) pop.viewport(current.viewport()) ... becomes ... push.viewport(viewport()) pop.viewport() ... and ... vp1 <- viewport() vp2 <- viewport() push.viewport(vp1, vp2) pop.viewport(vp2, vp1) ... becomes ... vp1 <- viewport() vp2 <- viewport() push.viewport(vp1, vp2) pop.viewport(2) 12. Speed-up of pushing and popping viewports. This will probably not be noticeable in normal usage, but makes a big difference for frames and packing. Changes from lattice_0.2 to grid_0.1: ------------------------------------- 0. Change of package name from "lattice" to "grid" (!!!!) This means that most user functions have changed from l to grid. 1. Slight speed up of grid.push.viewport and grid.pop.viewport. 2. Added sum() method for units. For example, try ... grid.rect(w=sum(unit(c(.25,.25), "npc"))) grid.rect(w=sum(unit(c(.25,.25), "npc"), unit(1, "cm")), border="red") 3. Changed the usage of grid.edit() slightly. If you want to specify several new values at once, you must use grid.prop.list() rather than just list(). For example, for a single new value use ... grid.edit(, col="red") ... as before, but for multiple new values use ... grid.edit(, grid.prop.list(col="red", lty="dashed")) ... rather than ... grid.edit(, list(col="red", lty="dashed")) 4. Added a new grid.frame() grob. This acts a bit like a simple grid.collection() BUT controls the placement of its children. You add children using the grid.pack() function. 5. All viewports and grobs now have a "gp" slot which contains a "gpar" object. This is a list of graphical parameters, which replaces the specification of individual graphical parameters for each different type of grob. For example, instead of the old ... grid.rect(w=.8, h=.8, border="red") ... we have the new ... grid.rect(w=.8, h=.8, gp=gpar(border="red")) This may seem like a loss (because you have to type more stuff), and it is a loss, but the (hopefully greater) win is that (i) you only have one parameter for all graphical settings, for example, ... grid.rect(w=.8, h=.8, gp=gpar(border="red", lwd=3)) ... and (ii) this applies for all grobs, for example, ... grid.text("hi", gp=gpar(col="red", fontsize=10)) ... and (iii) you can add more graphical parameters with minimal fuss, for example, ... grid.text("hi", gp=gpar(col="red", fontsize=10, new.par=whatever)) ... and (iv) its easier to automate things (see below). Graphical parameter settings are "permanent" so, for example, if an axis sets the colour to "red" then all of its children are drawn in "red" unless they set colour to something else. For example, try ... grid.multipanel(vp = grid.viewport(0.5, 0.5, 0.8, 0.8, gp=gpar(fontsize=20))) ... and notice that all of the components of the multipanel take notice of the fontsize setting of the parent viewport (except the axis labels because they explicitly set the fontsize to 20 themselves). The setting of graphical parameters is automated; if you have a slot called "gp" in your grob, Lattice will set the graphical parameters in that slot before calling draw.details() and unset the parameters afterwards. 6. The pushing and popping of "local" viewports has been automated. If you have a slot called "vp" in your grob, Lattice will call grid.push.viewport() on that slot before calling draw.details() and grid.pop.viewport() afterwards. 7. "collection" grobs and "[x|y]axis" grobs no longer pass editing operations down to their children. This was mainly (only ?) for sharing graphical parameter settings and that duty is now performed by the gpar stuff in point 5 above. This is a good thing because there are some cases where passing down editing operations could cause serious damage. For example, consider what would have happened if you had edited the "vp" slot of a collection grob (!)