[Rd] savePlot bug in R 2.6.0? (PR#10420)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is the same as PR#10403.  See

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2007-November/047352.html

which links to a workaround: it has long been fixed in R-patched.


On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, lupi at unimol.it wrote:

> Full_Name: Claudio Lupi
> Version: 2.6.0
> OS: Windows XP
> Submission from: (NULL) (85.18.14.35)
>
>
> Try the following:
>
> xy <- matrix(rnorm(20),10,2)
> plot(xy)
> savePlot("c:/xy", type="pdf")
> savePlot("c:/xy", type="eps")
>
> This used to work fine with previous R versions. Instead, with R 2.6.0 I get:
>
>> xy <- matrix(rnorm(20),10,2)
>> plot(xy)
>> savePlot("c:/xy", type="pdf")
> Error in savePlot("c:/xy", type = "pdf") : Invalid font type
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: In savePlot("c:/xy", type = "pdf") :
>  font family not found in PostScript font database
> 2: In savePlot("c:/xy", type = "pdf") :
>  font family not found in PostScript font database
>> savePlot("c:/xy", type="eps")
> Error in savePlot("c:/xy", type = "eps") : Invalid font type
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: In savePlot("c:/xy", type = "eps") :
>  font family not found in PostScript font database
> 2: In savePlot("c:/xy", type = "eps") :
>  font family not found in PostScript font database
>>
>
> savePlot works fine with type = "bmp".
>
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