[R-sig-Debian] can't open Cairo device

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 1 March 2011 at 22:46, Tom Gottfried wrote:
| Dear list,
| 
| in R under wheezy the following error occurs:
| 
|  > library(cairoDevice)
|  > Cairo()
| Error in Cairo() : Graphics API version mismatch

Odd. Maybe it needs a rebuild? Confirmed on Ubuntu 10.10.

R> library(cairoDevice)
R> Cairo()
Error in Cairo() : Graphics API version mismatch
R> 
 
| It seems to be Debian-specific, as I tried the same under OpenSUSE 11.3 
| and it worked.
| 
| I tried installing cairoDevice via `apt-get install r-cran-cairodevice' 
| and with `install.packages("cairoDevice")' in R (without any difference).
| 
| See below for my sessionInfo() from Debian wheezy and following from 
| OpenSUSE. Might it be the "Patched" in the version string from OpenSUSE 
| that makes the difference?

No, it won't be as that is the R version. We may need to rebuild the
package. The changelog says we updated to 2.14-1 in October. 

The Build-Depends are 
    
    libgtk2.0-dev libcairo2-dev

Can you make sure you have current ones and the try the local 'R CMD INSTALL
cairoDevice_2.14.tar.gz' (or via install.packages(...) if you prefer) and see
what that does?

Dirk


| 
| Thanks in advance!
| Tom
| 
| Debian:
| R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)
| Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
| 
| locale:
| [1] C
| 
| attached base packages:
| [1] grid      stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
| [8] base
| 
| other attached packages:
| [1] playwith_0.9-53      gWidgetsRGtk2_0.0-72 gWidgets_0.0-43
| [4] lattice_0.19-17      cairoDevice_2.14
| 
| loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
| [1] RGtk2_2.20.8   gridBase_0.4-3 tools_2.12.1
| Warning message:
| 'DESCRIPTION' file has 'Encoding' field and re-encoding is not possible
| 
| OpenSUSE:
| R version 2.12.1 Patched (2011-02-10 r54330)
| Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
| 
| locale:
|   [1] LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
|   [3] LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=de_DE.UTF-8
|   [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
|   [7] LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
|   [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
| [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
| 
| attached base packages:
| [1] grid      stats     graphics  grDevices utils     methods   base
| 
| other attached packages:
| [1] playwith_0.9-53      gWidgetsRGtk2_0.0-72 gWidgets_0.0-43
| [4] cairoDevice_2.14     lattice_0.19-13      RODBC_1.3-2
| 
| loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
| [1] gridBase_0.4-3 RGtk2_2.20.8   tools_2.12.1
| 
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