On Jan 18, 2012, at 5:22 PM, Steven McKinney wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have been having problems generating png files on a Mac running OS X
10.6.8.
>
> Here's a simple example
>
>> png("foo.png", type = "cairo"); plot(1:10);
dev.off();
> null device
> 1
> libpng warning: Application built with libpng-1.2.26 but running with 1.5.2
>
> The resultant file is of size 0 Kb.
>
> Is this the proper place to report this issue? Or should this
> be reported to r-sig-mac?
>
yes
> If I run
>
>> png("foo.png"); plot(1:10); dev.off();
> null device
> 1
>
> I get a 16 Kb file with the appropriate plot. (Odd, since the default type
is "cairo".)
>
No, the default is "quartz" unless you change it in your options.
On a similar note type="cairo-png" works as well.
The problem seems to be with R's configuration - for some mysterious reason
it picks libpng12 flags even though cairo clearly includes libpng15 (and so does
pkg-config). I'll need to dig a bit into that.
Cheers,
Simon
> Whenever I see the libpng warning, I end up with a 0 Kb file.
>
> Details of R session below.
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>
> Regards
>
> Steve McKinney
>
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>> png("foo.png"); plot(1:10); dev.off();
> null device
> 1
>> png("foo.png", type = "cairo"); plot(1:10);
dev.off();
> null device
> 1
> libpng warning: Application built with libpng-1.2.26 but running with 1.5.2
>> ?png
> starting httpd help server ... done
>> capabilities()
> jpeg png tiff tcltk X11 aqua http/ftp sockets
libxml fifo
> TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
TRUE TRUE
> cledit iconv NLS profmem cairo
> TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
>> png("foo.png"); plot(1:10); dev.off();
> null device
> 1
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.1 Patched (2012-01-11 r58090)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/C/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8
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> attached base packages:
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> [1] tools_2.14.1
>>
>
>
> Steven McKinney, Ph.D.
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