It is also several times greater than the limit of human perception, being several feet long at printing resolutions that need a magnifying glass to see.

This is Windows and the limit is in the graphics card: mine is able to do this but I suspect you need a 128Mb card (that jpeg is of itself about 90Mb). However, most viewers (including PhotoShop) will barf on such a large jpeg.


On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Uwe Ligges wrote:

michael watson (IAH-C) wrote:

Hi

I have been creating very, very long jpeg images for the last two weeks
using jpeg().  All of a sudden, and I mean that, it's stopped working -
I've not changed a thing!  The error message I get is:


jpeg("out.jpg",width=50000,height=480, quality=100)

Error in devga(paste("jpeg:", quality, ":", filename, sep = ""), width,
: unable to start device devga
In addition: Warning message: Unable to allocate bitmap I have plenty of disk space in the place I want to create the jpeg, and
if I reduce it from "width=50000" to "width=5000", then it works no
problem, which suggests it is a memory problem. If I close R and
re-open R the problem does not go away. And as I said above, I have
been using this code for weeks with no problem, then I change nothing,
and start getting this error message.

I don't believe it has worked. Such a huge one does not work for me even on a rather big machine.
If it had worked: On the same platform, OS, R version?
I think you have to contribute a patch in order to get such a huge jpeg.


Uwe Ligges


I'm running R 2.0.1 on Windows XP.  I'm going to restart Windows and see
if that helps, but if re-starting windows does help, is there an
explanation as to where all the memory R used to be able to get at
disappeared to in the current session?

Cheers
Mick

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