thr3ads.net - R help - [R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer [Jan 2007]

If this information is useful, please help other people find it:
Share via:

karl.sommer at dpi.vic.gov.au

2007-Jan-03 22:30 UTC

[R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer

Hello list,

I have encountered a problem trying to save graphs using the R-graphics
menu:  File|Save as.  The menu suggests that files may be saved as either
Metafile, Postscript, pdf, png, bmp, jpeg.
When I specify any of those file formats a menu comes up requesting a file
name.  After providing a name R invariably hangs and has to be restarted.

I am able to save files under the various formats using the command line
without problems.  However, sometimes it would be convenient to use the
menus.

I was wondering if anyone else had encountered a similar behaviour and had
found a remedy.

I am running are under GNU-Emacs ESS 5.3.3.
> sessionInfo()Version 2.3.0 (2006-04-24)
i386-pc-mingw32

attached base packages:
[1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics" 
"grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"
[7] "base"

other attached packages:
 lattice
"0.13-8"

Regards

Karl

_________________________________
Dr Karl J Sommer,
Department of Primary Industries,
Catchment & Agriculture Services,
PO Box 905
Mildura, VIC, 3502
Australia

Tel: +61 (0)3 5051 4390
Fax +61 (0)3 5051 4534

Email:     karl.sommer at dpi.vic.gov.au

Duncan Murdoch

2007-Jan-03 23:10 UTC

head link

[R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer

On 1/3/2007 5:30 PM, karl.sommer at dpi.vic.gov.au
wrote:> Hello list,
> 
> I have encountered a problem trying to save graphs using the R-graphics
> menu:  File|Save as.  The menu suggests that files may be saved as either
> Metafile, Postscript, pdf, png, bmp, jpeg.
> When I specify any of those file formats a menu comes up requesting a file
> name.  After providing a name R invariably hangs and has to be restarted.
> 
> I am able to save files under the various formats using the command line
> without problems.  However, sometimes it would be convenient to use the
> menus.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone else had encountered a similar behaviour and had
> found a remedy.
> 
> I am running are under GNU-Emacs ESS 5.3.3.
> 
>> sessionInfo()
> Version 2.3.0 (2006-04-24)
That version is out of date.  Could you please update to the current 
version (2.4.1), and see if the problem persists?  If so, could you 
please try it when running Rterm or Rgui on its own, rather than running 
under Emacs?

Thanks.

Duncan Murdoch
> i386-pc-mingw32
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics" 
"grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"
> [7] "base"
> 
> other attached packages:
>  lattice
> "0.13-8"
> 
> Regards
> 
> Karl
> 
> _________________________________
> Dr Karl J Sommer,
> Department of Primary Industries,
> Catchment & Agriculture Services,
> PO Box 905
> Mildura, VIC, 3502
> Australia
> 
> Tel: +61 (0)3 5051 4390
> Fax +61 (0)3 5051 4534
> 
> Email:     karl.sommer at dpi.vic.gov.au
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

karl.sommer at dpi.vic.gov.au

2007-Jan-04 22:33 UTC

head link

[R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer

Hello,

thanks for the advice.  I was aware that the version was out of date and
your message prompted me to finally upgrade to the latest version 2.4.1.
Unfortunately, running R under Emacs ESS, the problem I described earlier
persists.

I have also tried the Save as option under the standard RGui interface and
this worked in both the old and the new versions of R, 2.3.0 and 2.4.1
respectively.  The problem seems to be associated with Emacs ESS.  However
I don't have a clue where to start in order to find a solution.

In general I quite like using Emacs ESS.  It provides syntax highlighting
and this makes scripts far easier to read than with the standard editor
that comes with RGui.

I would be grateful for any further hints from someone who has encountered
similar problems in running R 2.4.1 through Emacs ESS 5.3.3 under Windows
2000.

Regards

Karl



|---------+---------------------------->
|         |           murdoch at stats.uwo|
|         |           .ca              |
|         |                            |
|         |           04/01/2007 10:10 |
|         |                            |
|---------+---------------------------->
 
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  |                                                                             
|
  |       To:       karl.sommer at dpi.vic.gov.au                               
|
  |       cc:       r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch                                 
|
  |       Subject:  Re: [R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer                   
|
 
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|




On 1/3/2007 5:30 PM, karl.sommer at dpi.vic.gov.au
wrote:> Hello list,
>
> I have encountered a problem trying to save graphs using the R-graphics
> menu:  File|Save as.  The menu suggests that files may be saved as either
> Metafile, Postscript, pdf, png, bmp, jpeg.
> When I specify any of those file formats a menu comes up requesting a
file> name.  After providing a name R invariably hangs and has to be restarted.
>
> I am able to save files under the various formats using the command line
> without problems.  However, sometimes it would be convenient to use the
> menus.
>
> I was wondering if anyone else had encountered a similar behaviour and
had> found a remedy.
>
> I am running are under GNU-Emacs ESS 5.3.3.
>
>> sessionInfo()
> Version 2.3.0 (2006-04-24)
That version is out of date.  Could you please update to the current
version (2.4.1), and see if the problem persists?  If so, could you
please try it when running Rterm or Rgui on its own, rather than running
under Emacs?

Thanks.

Duncan Murdoch
> i386-pc-mingw32
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] "methods"   "stats"     "graphics" 
"grDevices" "utils"
"datasets"> [7] "base"
>
> other attached packages:
>  lattice
> "0.13-8"
>
> Regards
>
> Karl
>
> _________________________________
> Dr Karl J Sommer,
> Department of Primary Industries,
> Catchment & Agriculture Services,
> PO Box 905
> Mildura, VIC, 3502
> Australia
>
> Tel: +61 (0)3 5051 4390
> Fax +61 (0)3 5051 4534
>
> Email:     karl.sommer at dpi.vic.gov.au
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

Richard M. Heiberger

2007-Jan-04 23:03 UTC

head link

[R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer

The good news, you don't have to shut down R.  Several control-G in
the *R* buffer in emacs will recover control.  A second attempt in the
same GUI graphics device did get the postscript file saved.

A workaround for this problem is to use the command line, rather than
the GUI menu, to save the file.  This line
    dev.copy2eps()
works.

I discovered that it is necessary to set
   options(chmhelp=FALSE)
when running R from emacs as the chmhelp is also freezing R
and the help system.  I am using  R-2.4.1 on Windows.

Use
   ?dev.copy2eps
for details on the command line dev.* commands.

Follow-up should go to the ess-bugs mailing list.

Rich

karl.sommer at dpi.vic.gov.au

2007-Jan-05 03:48 UTC

head link

[R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer

Hello list

thanks for that advice Rich.  You are right a few control-G allowed me to
recover and it had saved an eps file.

The dev.copy2eps appears to take exactly what is visible in the graphics
window and convert it to an eps file. This does the job for the moment.

Opening the eps file in GSview I noticed that there is still a lot of white
space in the bounding box which creates empty space when I want to include
the image into a tex document.  Is there a way to crop the image to remove
the white space before including it in a document?

Cheers

Karl



|---------+---------------------------->
|         |           rmh at temple.edu   |
|         |                            |
|         |           05/01/2007 10:03 |
|         |                            |
|---------+---------------------------->
 
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  |                                                                             
|
  |       To:       karl.sommer at dpi.vic.gov.au, murdoch at stats.uwo.ca      
|
  |       cc:       r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch, ess-bugs at stat.math.ethz.ch  
|
  |       Subject:  Re: [R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer                   
|
 
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|




The good news, you don't have to shut down R.  Several control-G in
the *R* buffer in emacs will recover control.  A second attempt in the
same GUI graphics device did get the postscript file saved.

A workaround for this problem is to use the command line, rather than
the GUI menu, to save the file.  This line
    dev.copy2eps()
works.

I discovered that it is necessary to set
   options(chmhelp=FALSE)
when running R from emacs as the chmhelp is also freezing R
and the help system.  I am using  R-2.4.1 on Windows.

Use
   ?dev.copy2eps
for details on the command line dev.* commands.

Follow-up should go to the ess-bugs mailing list.

Rich

Richard M. Heiberger

2007-Jan-05 05:15 UTC

head link

[R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer

An additional note.

You can see the bounding box in the GSview display by clicking
Options/Show Bounding Box

Rich

Richard M. Heiberger

2007-Jan-05 05:16 UTC

head link

[R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer

another note
you can clip the GSview to just the bounding box with
Options/EPS CCip

Rich

Possibly Parallel Threads

Search for more apparently analagous threads

R help - Jan 2007 - R grahics: Save as hangs computer

[R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer

[R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer

[R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer

[R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer

[R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer

[R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer

[R] R grahics: Save as hangs computer

Possibly Parallel Threads