R help - Nov 2010 - problem with PDF/postcript, cannot change paper size: "‘mode(width)’ and ‘mode(height)’ differ between new and previous"

Hi,

The pdf function would not let me change the paper size and gives me
the following warning:

pdf("figure.pdf", width="6", height="10")
Warning message:
?mode(width)? and ?mode(height)? differ between new and previous
	 ==> NOT changing ?width? & ?height?

If I use the option   paper = "a4r",   it does not give me a warning
but still prints on a square region (it does not use the entire page).

Two days ago I updated R and associated packages. I'm not sure if this
could be the cause? Even if I restart a new session I keep getting the
same error.  I also tried X11.options(reset=TRUE) and it does not
help.

Thanks for any hint you could give me, this is really annoying (the
function postscript gives the same error so I cannot make any
figure!).
all the best,

Emmanuel
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
 [3] LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8
 [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_CA.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

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

Update - sorry for the stupid question, let's say it's pretty late.

For those who may be as tired as I am and get the same warning, the
paper size should be given as an integer!


On 16 November 2010 04:17, Emmanuel Levy <emmanuel.levy at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The pdf function would not let me change the paper size and gives me
> the following warning:
>
> pdf("figure.pdf", width="6", height="10")
> Warning message:
> ?mode(width)? and ?mode(height)? differ between new and previous
> ? ? ? ? ==> NOT changing ?width? & ?height?
>
> If I use the option ? paper = "a4r", ? it does not give me a
warning
> but still prints on a square region (it does not use the entire page).
>
> Two days ago I updated R and associated packages. I'm not sure if this
> could be the cause? Even if I restart a new session I keep getting the
> same error. ?I also tried X11.options(reset=TRUE) and it does not
> help.
>
> Thanks for any hint you could give me, this is really annoying (the
> function postscript gives the same error so I cannot make any
> figure!).
> all the best,
>
> Emmanuel
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> ?[1] LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 ? ? ? LC_NUMERIC=C
> ?[3] LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8 ? ? ? ?LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8
> ?[5] LC_MONETARY=C ? ? ? ? ? ? ?LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8
> ?[7] LC_PAPER=en_CA.UTF-8 ? ? ? LC_NAME=C
> ?[9] LC_ADDRESS=C ? ? ? ? ? ? ? LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils ? ? datasets ?methods ? base
>