[R] tiff() woes

[Uwe Ligges]

>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Re: [R] tiff() woes
>> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:38:39 +0100
>> From: Federico Calboli <f.calboli at imperial.ac.uk>
>> To: Allan Engelhardt <allane at cybaea.com>, r-help at r-project.org
>> CC: James Grellier <j.grellier at imperial.ac.uk>
>> References: <BCEA3AB8-CC85-42A0-98E1-5FD0525C3C06 at imperial.ac.uk> 
>> <20090617171512.GA13612 at eddelbuettel.com> 
>> <83D6A539-69FD-43AE-9255-DB4E7EA72030 at imperial.ac.uk> 
>> <4A3A1811.5090201 at cybaea.com>
>>
>>  
>>>> I checked on the affected computer and both tiff and cairo  capabiliies
>>>> return FALSE. How that is I would not know, it's a bog standard R
>>>> installation on windows XP.
>>>>       
>>> The 2.9.0 Windows install does not have TIFF capability.  Try png() or
>>> something else.


Well, actually it does have tiff capabilities [although it does not 
report so, hence the latter may be a bug].

Uwe Ligges



>> I don't know about that, but R is definitively spitting out a 10x10cm
>> 300dpi tiff without issues. It's when a bigger/higher dpi image is
>> required that it bails out. I'm also told that jpeg() does not work on
>> that specific machine.
>>
>> F
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