R devel - Oct 2005 - MiKTeX/yap/Ghostcript issues with R-generated postscript

Hello,

I wonder if anybody has encountered this problem?

While MiKTeX/yap/Ghostscript seems to work fine on most TeX files that I 
have
tested (including a great deal of postscript graphics), there is one 
file where the
graphics works ok for all postscript files except one, the only one that 
is generated
by R. I get an error "Some postscript specials could not be rendered",
and the
details of the error message are in the attached file.

This same dvi file displays fine under Linux.

I'm using yap from MiKTeX 2.4 with the "most popular" installation
option.

Any tips would be appreciated,
Dominick

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Dominick Samperi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I wonder if anybody has encountered this problem?
> 
> While MiKTeX/yap/Ghostscript seems to work fine on most TeX files that I 
> have
> tested (including a great deal of postscript graphics), there is one 
> file where the
> graphics works ok for all postscript files except one, the only one that 
> is generated
> by R. I get an error "Some postscript specials could not be
rendered",
> and the
> details of the error message are in the attached file.
> 
> This same dvi file displays fine under Linux.
> 
> I'm using yap from MiKTeX 2.4 with the "most popular"
installation option.
>

Hmmm, has not happened for me within the last couple of years I was 
using R + MikTeX 2.4 ...

Can you specify a reproducible example for the R code that produces that 
PostScript file, please?
[Wild guess: Maybe you forgot to close the device by dev.off()?]

Uwe Ligges


> Any tips would be appreciated,
> Dominick
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Error: /undefined in 411 at endspecial
> Operand stack:
>    --nostringval--   PermitFileReading   --nostringval--  
PermitFileWriting   --nostringval--
> Execution stack:
>    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--  
--nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --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--
> Dictionary stack:
>    --dict:1125/1686(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:71/200(L)--  
--dict:95/300(L)--   --dict:63/200(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> MiKTeX GPL Ghostscript 8.15: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> 
> 
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