1. No reprex (we don't have WeightThru2018.csv) ! 2. Please post in plain text, not html . (did no har here, but could). 3. The following worked fine on my mac. > svg() > plot(1:5) > dev.off()
> sessionInfo() R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit) Running under: macOS Mojave 10.14.6 Matrix products: default BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.6/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base ... etc. Cheers, Bert Gunter "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and sticking things into it." -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip ) On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 3:18 PM Richard Fuhr <richard.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have encountered a problem generating an SVG file from a CSV file using R > on the Mac. > When I invoke the exact same script on two different Linux machines things > work fine. > Here is the script > > Sys.setenv(TZ="US/Pacific") > w<-read.csv("WeightThru2018.csv") > x<-as.Date(w$Date, "%m/%d/%y") > y<-w$Weight > For some reason svg combined with plot do not work on the Mac > svg("WeightThrough2018.svg") > plot(x,y, type="l") > pdf("WeightThrough2018.pdf") > plot(x,y, type="l") > jpeg("WeightThrough2018.jpg") > plot(x,y, type="l") > png("WeightThrough2018.png") > plot(x,y, type="l") > dev.off() > > The file, WeightThru2018.csv, consists of lines, each of which has a date > followed by a weight. > Here is the very beginning of the file > > Date,Weight > 6/4/00,189 > 6/5/00,191 > 6/6/00,191 > 6/7/00,191 > 6/9/00,190 > > When I run the script on the Mac, the system hangs with the first plot > command (after the call to the sag function) > When I comment out the line with the svg function and the first plot > command, things run fine on the Mac and the PDG, JPG and PNG files are > generated. > > When I run the script with no lines commented out on my Linux machines, > things work fine. > > When I enter the commands interactively on the Mac, the system hangs (no > error messages) with the first plot command. > > On the Mac I did verify that the variables x and y were being extracted > properly. > > Has anyone else out there tried to generate an SVG file that was a plot of > (x,y) data? > > I also found that, on the Mac, just running the plot command without > preceding it will a call to sag, pdf, jpeg, or plot, worked fine and I > could see the plot. > > SVG is a nice format, and I would like to be able to generate SVG files on > the Mac. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac