[Rd] win.metafile, devga, tkrplot in R 1.8.0

[Prof Brian Ripley]

The win.metafile one is long-standing but has only recently been checked:
it is now fixed (you were using a snapshot from the day the check was 
reinstated).

The other problem is due to a change to .find.packages, which has 
a new function .filePathAsAbsolute that changes / in paths to \\.
However, what R is passing to Tcl is a valid path, so looks like Tcl on 
Windows is not accepting Windows paths, aargh.


On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, James Wettenhall wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just downloaded 
> rw1080dev.exe           09-Sep-2003 07:42  21.6M  
> from
> http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software/r-devel/
> and tried using tkrplot on Windows 2000.
> 
> .First.lib failed to load the dll:
> .Tcl(paste("load", file, "Rplot"))
> appeared to be mixing up double-backslashes and forward slashes:
>  [tcl] couldn't load library "C:w1080devlibrary  krplot/libs/tkrplot.dll": 
> this library or a dependent library could not be found in library path.
> 
> When I loaded the dll manually with dyn.load (successfully), I 
> then found that win.metafile (used by the tkrplot function) 
> failed:
> 
> win.metafile()
> Error in win.metafile() : 10 arguments passed to "devga" which requires 13.
> 
> More info on devga, see:
> R-1.8.0/src/gnuwin32/devga.c
> R-1.8.0/src/gnuwin32/dodevga.c
> R-1.8.0/src/gnuwin32/devga.h
> 
> Regards,
> James
> 
> > version
>          _                           
> platform i386-pc-mingw32             
> arch     i386                        
> os       mingw32                     
> system   i386, mingw32               
> status   Under development (unstable)
> major    1                           
> minor    8.0                         
> year     2003                        
> month    09                          
> day      09                          
> language R                           
> >
> 
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