[R-SIG-Mac] quartz.save()

[Todd A. Johnson]

Hi Peter & Ricardo

The same thing can be done in 2.7.0 with:

quartz(type="pdf", file="/Users/username/wherever")
plot(0,0)
dev.off()

help(quartz) for additional options


Best wishes,

Todd


On 4/14/08 Monday, April 14, 2008,4:18 PM, "[Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT
Team" <webmaster at xen.net> wrote:

> Hi Peter, all,
> 
> Peter Cowan wrote:
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> I'm having trouble with the quartz.save(), I know this is an
>> undocumented function, and perhaps it is to be removed in 2.7.0.
>> However, I find it very useful though I have been having trouble with
>> it lately.
>> 
>> Specifically, I get:
>> 
>>   
>>> quartz()
>>> plot(0,0)
>>> quartz.save('temp.pdf')
>>>     
>> Error in .Call("QuartzSaveContents", device, file, type, list(...)) :
>>   C symbol name "QuartzSaveContents" not in load table
>> 
>> I know that quartz.save() has been discussed recently on the list, but
>> I didn't see this particular issue addressed.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
>> R GUI r5072
> 
> I'm getting exactly the same behavior here. Same R.app GUI, r5072,
> version.string R version 2.7.0 beta (2008-04-12 r45280).
> 
> And I also find this function really useful. Sorry, I've not followed
> previous discussions, so I am not aware of possible alternatives. Accept
> my apologies if they are quite obvious.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ricardo