Apparently so: this will be fixed in R-patched shortly.
Thanks for the report.
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Ido M. Tamir wrote:
> Hi,
> I don't know if I am the first one to report the problem:
> in 2.8.0 dev2bitmap gained aa support, but "extra" is null
> if neither taa nor naa is specified.
>
>> dev2bitmap("plot.pdf",type="pdfwrite")
> Error in paste(shQuote(gsexe), " -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -q -sDEVICE=",
type, :
> object "extra" not found
>> dev2bitmap("plot.pdf",type="pdfwrite",taa=4)
>>
>
> I guess a useful default for extra is missing:
>
> if (!is.na(taa))
> extra <- paste(" -dTextAlphaBits=", taa, sep =
"")
> if (!is.na(gaa))
> extra <- paste(extra, " -dGraphicsAlphaBits=", gaa, sep
= "")
> cmd <- paste(shQuote(gsexe), " -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -q
-sDEVICE=",
> type, " -r", res, "-dAutoRotatePages=/None",
" -g", ceiling(res *
> width), "x", ceiling(res * height), extra, "
-sOutputFile=",
> shQuote(file), " ", tmp, sep = "")
>
> best wishes,
> ido
>
>
>> R.Version()
> $platform
> [1] "x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu"
>
> $arch
> [1] "x86_64"
>
> $os
> [1] "linux-gnu"
>
> $system
> [1] "x86_64, linux-gnu"
>
> $status
> [1] ""
>
> $major
> [1] "2"
>
> $minor
> [1] "8.0"
>
> $year
> [1] "2008"
>
> $month
> [1] "10"
>
> $day
> [1] "20"
>
> $`svn rev`
> [1] "46754"
>
> $language
> [1] "R"
>
> $version.string
> [1] "R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)"
>
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