Prof Brian D Ripley
2000-Sep-02 07:06 UTC
[R] poscrscript() call returns an error on alphaev56-dec-osf4.0
On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Marcus Eger wrote:> > I have some slight problems getting R to run smoothly on our alpha... > What might be the reason for the following error message? > > > postscript() > Error in PS(file, old$paper, old$family, old$bg, old$fg, old$width, > old$height, : > unable to start device PostScriptUsually, that the afm files are not installed (properly). That error message comes from PS_Open, and the other possible cause is that the file argument cannot be opened for writing. I've added some extra warning messages in these cases to distinguish them. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Marcus Eger
2000-Sep-02 08:30 UTC
[R] poscrscript() call returns an error on alphaev56-dec-osf4.0
I have some slight problems getting R to run smoothly on our alpha... What might be the reason for the following error message?> postscript()Error in PS(file, old$paper, old$family, old$bg, old$fg, old$width, old$height, : unable to start device PostScript I have compiled R-1.1.1 and it starts without complaint. -- +------------------------------------------------------- | Marcus Eger | Philipps Universitaet Marburg | Fachbereich Physik AG Neurophysik | Renthof 7 | 35032 Marburg | Tel. +49 6421 282-4169 | Fax +49 6421 282-7034 +------------------------------------------------------- | E-Mail: marcus.eger at physik.uni-marburg.de +------------------------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._