[R] grImport/ghostscript problems

[Paul Murrell]

Hi

On 28/03/2011 8:13 a.m., Al Roark wrote:
>
> Hi All: I've been struggling for a while trying to get grImport up
> and running.  I'm on a Windows 7 (home premium 64 bit) machine
> running R-2.12.2 along with GPL Ghostscript 9.01. I've set my Windows
> PATH variable to point to the Ghostscript \bin and \lib directories,
> and I've created the R_GSCMD environment variable pointing to
> gswin32c.exe. I don't have any experience with Ghostscript, but with
> the setup described above I can view the postscript file with the
> following command to the Windows command prompt: gswin32c.exe
> D:\Sndbx\vasarely.ps However, I can't get the PostScriptTrace()
> function to work on the same file.  Submitting
> PostScriptTrace("D:/Sndbx/vasarely.ps") gives me the error: Error in
> PostScriptTrace("D:/Sndbx/vasarely.ps") :   status 127 in running
> command 'gswin32c.exe -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pswrite
> -sOutputFile=C:\Users\Al\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmppPjDAf\file5db99cb
> -sstdout=vasarely.ps.xml capturevasarely.ps' Your suggestions are
> much appreciated. Cheers, Al [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

You could try running the ghostscript command that is printed in the 
error message at the Windows command prompt to see more info about the 
problem (might need to remove the '-q' so that ghostscript prints 
messages to the screen).

Paul

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