Plaintive squeak: Why the change? Some OS's and desktops use the extension, so forgetting it causes trouble. The new default filename keeps a filetype (as before) but the user now has to type a filetype twice (once as the type, once as extension) to get the same effect fo rtheir own filenames. And the extension isn't then checked for consistency with valid file types, so it can be mistyped and saved with no warning. Hard to see the advantage of doing away with it...
Suggestion: Revert to the previous default (extension as type) and include an 'extension' in the parameter list so that folk who don't want it can change it and folk who did want it get it automatically. The code would then look something like savePlot<-function (filename = "Rplot", type = c("wmf", "emf", "png", "jpg", "jpeg", "bmp", "tif", "tiff", "ps", "eps", "pdf"), device = dev.cur(), restoreConsole = TRUE, extension) #Added extension { type <- match.arg(type) if(missing(extension)) extension <- type ##added devlist <- dev.list() devcur <- match(device, devlist, NA) if (is.na(devcur)) stop("no such device") devname <- names(devlist)[devcur] if (devname != "windows") stop("can only copy from 'windows' devices") if (filename == "clipboard" && type == "wmf") filename <- "" else fullname <- paste(filename, extension, sep=ifelse(extension=="","",".") ) ##added invisible(.External(CsavePlot, device, fullname, type, restoreConsole)) ##Modded } Steve E PS Yes, I took a while to upgrade from 2.6.x. Otherwise I'd have squeaked the day I upgraded - like I just did - 'cos I use savePlot a LOT. ******************************************************************* This email and any attachments are confidential. Any use...{{dropped:8}} ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel