[R] pdf creation error

Ray Brownrigg Ray.Brownrigg at mcs.vuw.ac.nz
Tue Oct 21 21:22:04 CEST 2008


You just don't have write access to the directory you are working in.  That's what the 
second part of the message is telling you.

HTH
Ray Brownrigg
Victoria University of Welington

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, j daniel wrote:
> Hello -
>
> I am trying to create a pdf file in R, but I keep getting an error that
> says
>
> it cannot open the pdf device.  Here is the code and output:
> > pdf(file="test.pdf")
>
> Error in pdf(file = "test.pdf") : unable to start device pdf
> In addition: Warning message:
> In pdf(file = "test.pdf") : cannot open 'pdf' file argument 'test.pdf'
>
> Until yesterday I could use the pdf() function without problems, so I am
> not sure what happened.  The error does not go away if I restart R or
> restart my computer.  Any ideas???



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