Hi Paul,

I'm using the latest version 0.7-2 with the version 9.00 of ghostscript on a
windows XP machine.
The error is still there and there is no xml file genrerated but a .rds
file...

Guillaume

2011/4/5 Paul Murrell <p.murrell@auckland.ac.nz>

> Hi
>
>
> On 5/04/2011 9:30 p.m., guillaume Le Ray wrote:
>
>> Hi Al,
>>
>> I'm facing exactly the same problem as you are, have you manage to
>> fix it? If yes I eager to know the trick.
>>
>
> Al's problem turned out to be a bug in 'grImport', so one thing you can try
> is to install the latest version of 'grImport'.
>
> If that still fails, you might be able to get more information about the
> problem by looking at the end of the XML file that is created by
> PostScriptTrace().  If ghostscript has hit trouble it's error messages will
> hopefully be at the end of that XML file.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Guillaume
>>
>> 2011/3/27 Al Roark<hrbuilder@hotmail.com>
>>
>>  Paul Murrell<p.murrell<at>  auckland.ac.nz>  writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Thanks for your reply.
>>>
>>> Perhaps this is a Ghostscript problem. When I run the Ghostscript
>>> command, I'm met with the rather unhelpful error: 'GPL Ghostscript
>>> 9.01: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 (occurs whether or not I
>>> remove the -q)'.
>>>
>>> Interestingly, if I remove the final argument (in this case,
>>> capturevasarely.ps) the Ghostscript command executes, placing a
>>> file (appears to be xml) in the temporary directory. However, I'm
>>> not sure what to do with this result.
>>>
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