Why are you using Cairo 'to avoid some X11 issues' for an unreleased version of R that does not use X11 for its png() device?
I see this under Cairo, but not under png(type ="cairo") (the default). The R posting guide asked you to discuss package problems with the maintainer, so if you have not already done so, please do so. On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, audrey wrote: > Dear all, > > I am trying to use the Cairo package to avoid some X11 issues and it > works very well. However, when I want to add a legend to my plots, I > receive an error message from Cairo: > > > library(Cairo) > > CairoPNG(file="test.png") > > plot(1:100) > > dev.off() > null device > 1 > This works fine. But: > > > CairoPNG(file="test.png") > > plot(1:100) > > legend(50,50,"test") > Error in strwidth(legend, units = "user", cex = cex) : > font 2147483647 not recognized in Rcairo_setup_font > > dev.off() > null device > 1 > > Does anyone know how to obtain a plot with legend using Cairo? > > I have tried it on two different environments, so here are the two > sessionInfo(): > > > sessionInfo() > R version 2.8.0 Under development (unstable) (2008-04-07 r45137) > i686-pc-linux-gnu > > locale: > C > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > other attached packages: > [1] Cairo_1.4-2 fortunes_1.3-3 > > ############### > > sessionInfo() > R version 2.8.0 Under development (unstable) (2008-04-07 r45137) > x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > > locale: > LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_US.ISO-8859-1;LC_COLLATE=en_US.ISO-8859-1;LC_MONETARY=C;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.ISO-8859-1;LC_PAPER=en_US.ISO-8859-1;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.ISO-8859-1;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > other attached packages: > [1] Cairo_1.4-2 fortunes_1.3-3 > > Best regards, > Audrey > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- 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 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.