[R] "ungültige Versionsspezifikation"

[Mag. Ferri Leberl]

Thank you. Hereby I send you the return to sessionInfo(). I have
meanwhile updated to 2.5.1.

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> library(cairo)
Fehler in package_version(vers) : ungültige Versionsspezifikation
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27)
i486-pc-linux-gnu

locale:
LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"
"methods"
[7] "base"
>




Am Mittwoch, den 15.08.2007, 15:26 +0200 schrieb Martin Maechler:
> >>>>> "JK" == John Kane <jrkrideau at yahoo.ca>
> >>>>>     on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:55:59 -0400 (EDT) writes:
> 
>     JK> I think we need more information about your system.
>     JK> Please run
>     JK> sessionInfo()
>     JK> and include the information in another posting.
> 
> Yes, indeed.
> However R version 2.3.1 seems a bit too old to fit to a current
> version of cairo (rather 'cairoDevice' ??).
> 
> And BTW: It is a *package*, not a library!!!
> 
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
> 
>     JK> --- "Mag. Ferri Leberl" <ferri.leberl at gmx.at> wrote:
> 
>     >> Dear everybody,
>     >> excuse me if this question ist trivial, however, I
>     >> have now looked for
>     >> an answer for quite a while and therefore dare
>     >> placing it here.
>     >> I want to export .svg-files and got here the advice
>     >> to employ the
>     >> cairo-library.
>     >> I downloaded the *current*-version here and expanded
>     >> it
>     >> to /usr/local/lib/R/site-library.
>     >> library(cairo) returned ungültige
>     >> Versionsspezifikation (INVALID VERSION
>     >> SPECIFICATION).
>     >> I got some answer here (EPM39), but, stupid enough,
>     >> I could not employ
>     >> it as I don't know where to look for the variable
>     >> named there.
>     >> The R-version I employ is 2.3.1.
>     >> Can anybody solve the (probably simple) problem?
>     >> Thank you in advance.
>     >> Yours, Ferri
> 
> 
> 
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