[R] postscript problem

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Mathieu Ros <mathieu at lecastor.net> writes:


> Sorry :|
> 
> version :
>          _                   
> platform sparc-sun-solaris2.8
> arch     sparc               
> os       solaris2.8          
> system   sparc, solaris2.8   
> status                       
> major    1                   
> minor    2.2                 
> year     2001                
> month    02                  
> day      26                  
> language R 
> 
> example :
>     
> postscript("pipo.ps")
> pipo<-matrix(c(1:12),ncol=4)
> par(mfrow=c(1,4))
> for (i in 1:4){ plot(pipo[,i])}
> dev.off()
> 
> 
>     PBR> Just one idea: gs 6.0 was one of the least reliable recent
>     PBR> versions.  Try upgrading to at least 6.01.
> 
> well, there's problems with translation from ps to pdf too, so I don't 
> think ghostscript matters (?).

I think pstopdf and friends call ghostscript internally, so...

Works fine for me on Sol2.7 with R 1.2.3 and an ancient version of gv.
It seems to be complaining about not being able to find the Helvetica
font, which should be present on a proper Ghostscript installation.
Did you by any chance forget to install the ghostscript-fonts package?

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