[Rd] png problem on Intel Mac (PR#9287)

[Don MacQueen]

At 10:57 PM +0200 10/10/06, higgins at nceas.ucsb.edu wrote:
>Full_Name: Daniel F Higgins
>Version: 2.4.0
>OS: Mac OS X 10.4.8
>Submission from: (NULL) (128.111.242.49)
>
>
>When running the commands
>
>png(filename='aaa.jpg', width=480, height=480)
>plot(c(1,2,3))
>
>in the Mac OSX graphical interface window, the png file 'aaa.png' is 
>created if
>one clicks on the 'X' icon to start the X window application first.
>
>However, if you enter 'R' on the command line (i.e. inside Terminal) and then
>enter the same commands using the command line version of R, no png file ever
>gets created (and no errors are generated).
>
>Note that this error does not occur on older PowerPC Mac (only on Intel Mac)
>
>(And it would be nice if X did not have to be running to create png or jpeg
>output graphics.)

See the GDD package.

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Don MacQueen
Environmental Protection Department
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA, USA