[R] png file

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 Fairouz_Makhlouf at hgsi.com wrote:

> Dear R-help list users,
>
> I have a question about saving a graph as .png file under Unix.  The R
> version is 1.2.2.  The message I am getting is
>
> Error in X11(paste("png::", filename, sep = ""), width, height, pointsize,
> :  unable to start device PNG
>  No png support in this version of R

That means exactly what it says.  Where did your version come from?

> even though when I do help on png it shows that it should be working ok and
> it should be supported.

What help?  R's help says nothing like that.

Look at the configure logs to see why it was not configured in, if you
compiled it yourself.

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