Hi
On 24/06/2012 5:54 p.m., M. Ndiaye wrote:> I couldn't run PostScriptTrace() from the package "grImport"
without an
> error. At first the postscript program couldn't be found. however the
> problem persisted after the full path the postscript program was indicated.
> I read earlier post on the subject in vain. See the codes and output below.
> The file "Senegal_location_map.ps" was originally a
"svg" file from:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Senegal_location_map.svg
> It was saved as "ps" file from Inkscape.
> Thank you for any assistance
> Modou
>> library(grImport)
> Loading required package: grid
> Loading required package: XML
Your problem might be the space in the file path below ...
>> Sys.setenv(R_GSCMD="C:/Program
Files/gs/gs9.05/bin/gswin64c.exe")
... which you could fix as follows (add single quotes around the outside
so that the file path it itself surrounded by double quotes) ...
Sys.setenv(R_GSCMD='"C:/Program
Files/gs/gs9.05/bin/gswin64c.exe"')
Paul
>> PostScriptTrace("Senegal_location_map.ps", charpath=F)
> Error in PostScriptTrace("Senegal_location_map.ps", charpath = F)
:
> status 127 in running command 'C:/Program
Files/gs/gs9.05/bin/gswin64c.exe
> -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pswrite -sOutputFile>
C:\Users\heman\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp2duW3P\filefd01d981ff7
> -sstdout=Senegal_location_map2.ps.xml
captureSenegal_location_map.ps'
>> traceback()
> 2: stop(gettextf("status %d in running command '%s'",
ret, cmd),
> domain = NA)
> 1: PostScriptTrace("Senegal_location_map.ps", charpath = F)
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
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