[Rd] incorrect DLL path for Rbitmap.dll on Windows

Duncan Murdoch murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Tue Nov 9 16:53:20 CET 2010


On 08/11/2010 3:14 PM, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I think there is a problem in recent devel builds of R on Windows with
> various devices from the grDevices package.

This should be fixed now, as of today's build.  Thanks for the report 
(and thanks to Brian Ripley for fixing it).

Duncan Murdoch

> For example:
>
> >  capabilities()
>      jpeg      png     tiff    tcltk      X11     aqua http/ftp  sockets
>      TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE    FALSE    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE
>    libxml     fifo   cledit    iconv      NLS  profmem    cairo
>      TRUE    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE    FALSE
> >  jpeg()
> Error in jpeg() : unable to start jpeg() device
> In addition: Warning messages:
> 1: In jpeg() : Unable to load Rbitmap.dll
> 2: In jpeg() : opening device failed
>
> In the GUI version, a dialog appears saying:
> Unable to load
> 'C:\PROGRA~1\R\R-213~1.0DE\library\grDevices\libs\Rbitmap.dll'
>
> It seems that there should be an architecture folder (i386 or x64) after
> "libs", because that is where the dll is located.
>
> Same thing happens with png(), tiff(), etc.
>
> >  sessionInfo()
> R version 2.13.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-11-07 r53537)
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> Thanks!
> Dan
>
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