On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 05:26:26PM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 of June 2004 21:23, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > That may be related. I only recently set R_PAPERSIZE to be driven from
> > Debian's global paperconf setting which is supposed result in
> > /etc/R/Renviron having
> >
> > ## edd Apr 2004: use Debian's paperconf settings, with thanks to Matej
> Cepl
> > R_PAPERSIZE=${R_PAPERSIZE-$(cat /etc/papersize)}
> >
> > yet I just noticed that my own installation doesn't have that. And yes,
> > looks like a build-time patch failed. bNeed to check that ...
>
> This probably means that you should install libpaper-utils (especially
> papersize(5) may be helpful).
Hm, when I tested this the shell expansion failed even though I have
libpaper-utils installed:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> dpkg -l | grep "libpaper"
ii libpaper-dev 1.1.14 Library for handling paper characteristics (
ii libpaper-utils 1.1.14 Library for handling paper characteristics (
ii libpaper1 1.1.14 Library for handling paper characteristics
ii libpaperg 1.1.14 Library for handling paper characteristics (
ii libpaperg-dev 1.1.14 Library for handling paper characteristics (
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> cat /etc/papersize
letter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> grep ^R_PAPERSIZE /etc/R/Re
Renviron Renviron.dpkg-old Renviron~
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> echo 'postscript("/tmp/foo.ps"); plot(rnorm(100)); dev.off()'
| R --vanilla --silent
> postscript("/tmp/foo.ps"); plot(rnorm(100)); dev.off()
Error in postscript("/tmp/foo.ps") : invalid page type $(cat
/etc/papersize)' (postscript)
Execution halted
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~>
I tried all quote tick variants around $(cat /etc/papersize) as well
without any luck.
In case you have that working, could you wave the cluebat at me? I somehow
suspect that this cannot work but I may miss some magic shell pixie dust ...
Dirk
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