I believe that this is probably related to a problem I sporadically
experience in the Windows GUI where after I page up through several graphs
in a windows() graphics window and page back down, the last graph is gone.
As you said, a minor annoyance that is probably more of a pain to fix than
it's worth. But you're not alone. :-)
FWIW:
OS Windows 2000 V5 SP4
platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch i386
os mingw32
system i386, mingw32
status
major 2
minor 1.0
year 2005
month 04
day 18
language R
Cheers,
Bert
-- Bert Gunter
Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics
South San Francisco, CA
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> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of
> OlsenN at pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca
> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 3:17 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] Invalid device number in savePlot
>
> Hi,
> I recently encountered an error using the command "savePlot"
> when trying to
> save the third of 3 open graph windows. After successfully saving and
> closing the first two windows I receive an "Invalid device number in
> savePlot" error. The following is copied and pasted from an
> example session
> to illustrate the behaviour:
>
> > windows()
> > hist(rnorm(100))
> > windows()
> > hist(rnorm(100))
> > windows()
> > hist(rnorm(100))
> > savePlot("foo", "wmf")
> > dev.off()
> windows
> 2
> > savePlot("foo", "wmf")
> > dev.off()
> windows
> 3
> > savePlot("foo", "wmf")
> Error in savePlot("foo", "wmf") : invalid device number
in savePlot
>
> If I check the current active device and manually set this
> parameter in
> savePlot, I still receive the error:
>
> > dev.cur()
> windows
> 3
> > savePlot("foo", "wmf", device=3)
> Error in savePlot("foo", "wmf", device = 3) :
> invalid device number in savePlot
>
> This behaviour is certainly not a critical issue for me so
> I'm not looking
> for a solution; I just thought I should report the issue in
> case it's a bug
> ... or perhaps I'm simply doing something stupid without realising it.
> Norm
>
> WinXP SP2
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch i386
> os mingw32
> system i386, mingw32
> status
> major 2
> minor 1.1
> year 2005
> month 06
> day 20
> language R
>
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