On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> R for Windows crashes where more than one plot is plotted to a windows
> metafile where an integer format is not included in the character
> string (i.e. when attempting to write more than one plot to the same
> file).
That is a user error, but the C code is missing a test for a non-NULL
pointer.
What is unclear is why the metafile cannot be created. Although we have
called CloseEnhMetafile and DeleteEnhMetafile, it seems Windows is still
locking the file it opened. I don't know how to work around that.
> win.metafile("tmp.wmf")
> plot(1:10)
> plot(1:10)
>
> The following dialogues then come up:
>
> Unable to create metafile
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