Thank you, I am sorry for my positive contribution to the entropy of R lists ... I missed the fact that somewhere there is a separate list of Windows specific bug fixes. Maybe it would be useful that this list be put in evidence close to the other one.
Kind regards Simone On 11/6/07, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Simone Giannerini wrote: > > > I looked at the list of bug fixes before writing and I found that the > > only thing close to it is this > > > > o postscript() was not always ignoring .Postscript.Options in > > the workspace (where it should not have occurred). > > > > but I must admit I did not understand whether it had anything to do > > with this bug report. > > It occurs on Windows only, and the src/gnuwin32/CHANGES file says > > BUG FIXES > > o Saving a plot to Postscript or PDF required the font database > to have been initialized: this is now done if necessary. > > See also > > https://mailman.stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-October/142414.html > > (over a month ago). > > > > > Thanks > > > > Simone > > > > On 11/6/07, Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This has been reported several times before and has been fixed in > >> R-patched some weeks ago. > >> > >> Uwe Ligges > >> > >> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> Full_Name: Jane L. Harvill > >>> Version: 2.6.0 > >>> OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Version 2002, Service Pack 2 > >>> Submission from: (NULL) (129.62.21.93) > >>> > >>> > >>> PROBLEM: The ability to save the contents of an R Graphics window as a > >>> postscript or PDf file through the drop-down menu (File -> Save As -> > >>> Postscript, or File -> Save As -> PDF) results in the error message below > >>> being > >>> printed to the R Console. > >>> > >>> ERROR MESSAGE: > >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> Error: Invalid font type > >>> In addition: Warning messages: > >>> 1: font family not found in PostScript font database > >>> 2: font family not found in PostScript font database > >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> > >>> TO RECREATE THE PROBLEM: > >>> 1. Using the R Console, create some graph in R; for example, > >>> plot(rnorm(100)). > >>> 2. Select File -> Save As -> PostScript (or File -> Save As -> PDF). > >>> 3. Supply a file name and click the "Save" button. > >>> > >>> FOUR OTHER RELEVANT NOTES: > >>> 1. I checked to see if the same error results when invoking the functions > >>> pdf(file=...) or postscript(file=...). No error results, and the > >>> content of > >>> the output (.ps or .pdf) file produces a duplicate of what appears in the > >>> R > >>> Graphics window. > >>> > >>> 2. I checked, but did not see any other bug reports in the system that > >>> are > >>> relevant to this problem. > >>> > >>> 3. Before I submitted this R Bug Report, I reinstalled the PostScript > >>> fonts, > >>> and then reinstalled R Version 2.6.0. This did not change the outcome. > >>> > >>> 4. This problem did not exist in previous versions of R on any of my > >>> computers. > >>> It exists on all computers for version 2.6.0 of R. > >>> > >>> ______________________________________________ > >>> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > >> > > > > > > > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > -- ______________________________________________________ Simone Giannerini Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche "Paolo Fortunati" Universita' di Bologna Via delle belle arti 41 - 40126 Bologna, ITALY Tel: +39 051 2098262 Fax: +39 051 232153 http://www2.stat.unibo.it/giannerini/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
