[R] Unable to run dev.new

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Duncan,

Ubuntu 10.04
R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)

Debian 504
R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)


Both R were installed on repo.  What can I do?  Thanks


B.R.
Stephen L





----- Original Message ----
From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
To: Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com>
Cc: "r-help at r-project.org" <r-help at r-project.org>
Sent: Tue, August 31, 2010 11:57:12 PM
Subject: Re: [R] Unable to run dev.new

On 31/08/2010 11:52 AM, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> 
> Debian 504 64 bit.
> 
> Have spent more than 2 hours on dev.new and can't make it to work.
> 
> > dev.new(height = 6, width = 12)
> Error in dev.new(height = 6, width = 12) :   unused argument(s) (height = 6, 
>width = 12)
> 
> r-base-core has been installed.  The command should be correct.  I have run it 
>before.
> 
> Finally I started another VM, Ubuntu 10.04, also 64 bit, and then R.  The 
>command abovementioned works without problem starting the plot window.
> 
> It looks quite funny to me.  Any help?
>  


You don't state your R version, but an earlier message from you hinted it might 
be 2.7.1.  The dev.new() function was modified in 2.8.0 to be able to handle 
those parameters.

The current release is 2.11.1, so your copy is way out of date, if it's really 
2.7.1.

Duncan Murdoch