On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Simone Giannerini wrote:
[snip]
Maybe, but given the way things have been working lately, it might be
better to emphasize
(a) check the mailinglists
(b) try R-patched
(c) if in doubt, ask, rather than report as bug
(Ideally, people would try the prerelease versions and problems like
this would be caught before the actual release, but it seems that they
prefer treating x.y.0 as a beta release...)
I am sorry but I do not agree with point (b) for the very simple fact
that the average Windows user do not know how to compile the source
code and might not even want to learn how to do it. The point is that
since (if I am correct) the great majority of R users go Windows you
would miss an important part of potential bug reports by requiring
point (b) whereas (a) and (c) would suffice IMHO.
Maybe if there were Win binaries of the prerelease version available
some time before the release you would get much more feedback but I am
just guessing.
Windows binaries of R-patched are available all the time via
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/
They are not always current, but only occasionally are they more than a
day or two old.
Same for R-devel.
The biggest plus point about recommending trying R-patched is that is
often the solution to the problem (as here, although there is also a
workaround).
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.
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