R help - Feb 2010 - Problems with savePlot() and postscript under Snow Leopard

Dear all,

I tried:
> iris
> species.n <- as.numeric(Species)
> plot(iris, col = species.n)
> savePlot(filename="IrisTestPlot", type="png")
and got the error message:
Fehler in savePlot(filename = "IrisTestPlot", type = "png")
:
  kann nur aus 'X11(type="*cairo")' Devices kopieren

(sorry, I have a german version of R).

I tried:
> postscript("IrisTestPlot.eps",
paper="special",height=6,width=6,onefile=FALSE,horizontal=FALSE)
 and
> postscript(file="IrisTestPlot2.pdf", onefile = FALSE, horizontal
= FALSE, paper = "special", width = 8, height = 8)
in both cases there are files produced that cannot be opened. Error
message: the bounding box is missing.


I use 64 bit R under Snow Leopard.
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0

locale:
[1] de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8/C/C/de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8

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

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.10.1


Are there any configurations I missed to make?


Thanks in advance for your time and help!

Sincerely,
Hannes

Hi Hannes,
> Dear all,
>
> I tried:
>> iris
>> species.n <- as.numeric(Species)
>> plot(iris, col = species.n)
>> savePlot(filename="IrisTestPlot", type="png")
You might try

quartz.save("Iris.png","png")

I think this is an undocumented function that is specific to the Mac GUI.
You can search the r-sig-mac archives for some discussion/information.

Hope this helps,

Michael
> and got the error message:
> Fehler in savePlot(filename = "IrisTestPlot", type =
"png") :
> ?kann nur aus 'X11(type="*cairo")' Devices kopieren
>
> (sorry, I have a german version of R).
>
> I tried:
>> postscript("IrisTestPlot.eps",
paper="special",height=6,width=6,onefile=FALSE,horizontal=FALSE)
>
> ?and
>
>> postscript(file="IrisTestPlot2.pdf", onefile = FALSE,
horizontal = FALSE, paper = "special", width = 8, height = 8)
>
> in both cases there are files produced that cannot be opened. Error
> message: the bounding box is missing.
>
>
> I use 64 bit R under Snow Leopard.
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
> x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
>
> locale:
> [1] de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8/C/C/de_DE.UTF-8/de_DE.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils ? ? datasets ?methods ? base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.10.1
>
>
> Are there any configurations I missed to make?
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your time and help!
>
> Sincerely,
> Hannes
>
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