[R] problem with PDF/postcript, cannot change paper size: "‘mode(width)’ and ‘mode(height)’ differ between new and previous"

[Emmanuel Levy]

Update - sorry for the stupid question, let's say it's pretty late.

For those who may be as tired as I am and get the same warning, the
paper size should be given as an integer!


On 16 November 2010 04:17, Emmanuel Levy <emmanuel.levy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The pdf function would not let me change the paper size and gives me
> the following warning:
>
> pdf("figure.pdf", width="6", height="10")
> Warning message:
> ‘mode(width)’ and ‘mode(height)’ differ between new and previous
>         ==> NOT changing ‘width’ & ‘height’
>
> If I use the option   paper = "a4r",   it does not give me a warning
> but still prints on a square region (it does not use the entire page).
>
> Two days ago I updated R and associated packages. I'm not sure if this
> could be the cause? Even if I restart a new session I keep getting the
> same error.  I also tried X11.options(reset=TRUE) and it does not
> help.
>
> Thanks for any hint you could give me, this is really annoying (the
> function postscript gives the same error so I cannot make any
> figure!).
> all the best,
>
> Emmanuel
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>  [3] LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_CA.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>