[R] SVG output on Windows OS

[David Winsemius]

It says cairo is not available. (Once you read this in a proper  
monospaced font, anyway.)


On Aug 1, 2009, at 4:27 PM, Michael Roessler wrote:

> Thank you, David.
>
> Cairo is installed and loaded.
> cairoDevice is installed and loaded.
> RGtk2 is installed and loaded (which installed GTK+)
>
> yet I still get false for cairo:
>
> > 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    FALSE    FALSE
                                                          ^^^^^^^

You need to investigate why your Windows cairo installation is not  
available.



>
>
> > Cairo.capabilities()
>   png  jpeg  tiff   pdf   svg    ps   x11   win
>  TRUE FALSE FALSE  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE FALSE  TRUE
>
> > ggsave(file="chart.svg")
> Saving 6" x 6" image
> Error: 'svg' is not an exported object from 'namespace:grDevices'
> >
>
> I'm lost as to how to produce the svg output on windows. All works  
> suitably on Linux.
>
>
> Michael Roessler, CFA
> michael.roesler at keyevent.com
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:15 AM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net 
> > wrote:
>
> On Jul 31, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Michael Roessler wrote:
>
> How may one save a graphic as svg on Windows? The svg() command is
> recognized and functions well on Linux, etc., but not on Windows, it  
> seems.
> I'm trying to use Hadley Wickam's ggplot2 and I would like to be  
> able to
> save created charts as svg for later input into Illustrator. I am  
> able to
> accomplish this workflow under Linux, but I don't know how to get R to
> recognize the svg() command under Windows. I have loaded RsvgDevice,  
> Cairo,
> and cairoDevice in my attempts. The problem seems to me to be directly
> related to enabling R to produce svg output on Windows, rather than  
> related
> to ggplot2.
>
>
> What does capabilities() return?
> -- 
>
> David Winsemius, MD
> Heritage Laboratories
> West Hartford, CT
>
>

David Winsemius, MD
Heritage Laboratories
West Hartford, CT