[R-SIG-Mac] printing from terminal

Kasper Daniel Hansen khansen at stat.berkeley.edu
Tue Jan 20 06:38:08 CET 2009


On Jan 18, 2009, at 16:45 , Simon Urbanek wrote:

>
> On Jan 18, 2009, at 4:34 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:
>
>> This is using
>> R version 2.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-01-12 r47571)
>> but it also happens under a somewhat recent version of R-2.8.1  
>> (from svn)
>>
>> I have compiled myself under OS 10.5 X (see below for compilation  
>> command), which is probably the cause of the following.
>>
>> When I open a fresh R in the Terminal and do a simple
>> > plot(1:10)
>> the "new" R quartz window pops up. When I then select the window  
>> using the mouse and subsequently choose "print" from the menu bar,  
>> I get the following error in Terminal:
>>
>> 2009-01-18 13:26:34.575 R[46025:613] Error loading /Library/ 
>> Printers/Dell/PDEs/DellSecurePrint.plugin/Contents/MacOS/ 
>> DellSecurePrint:  dlopen(/Library/Printers/Dell/PDEs/ 
>> DellSecurePrint.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DellSecurePrint, 265): no  
>> suitable image found.  Did find:
>> 	/Library/Printers/Dell/PDEs/DellSecurePrint.plugin/Contents/MacOS/ 
>> DellSecurePrint: mach-o, but wrong architecture
>> 2009-01-18 13:26:34.578 R[46025:613] Error loading /Library/ 
>> Printers/Dell/PDEs/DellJobAccount.plugin/Contents/MacOS/ 
>> DellJobAccount:  dlopen(/Library/Printers/Dell/PDEs/ 
>> DellJobAccount.plugin/Contents/MacOS/DellJobAccount, 265): no  
>> suitable image found.  Did find:
>> 	/Library/Printers/Dell/PDEs/DellJobAccount.plugin/Contents/MacOS/ 
>> DellJobAccount: mach-o, but wrong architecture
>>
>> after this, the standard OS 10.5 print dialog opens up and the  
>> print job is able to be completed.
>>
>> Based on the error message, I guess it has something to do with me  
>> only compiling for x86_64. The printing does work, so this is not a  
>> big problem, but I thought I should report it.
>>
>
> As you can see this is some strange Dell (yuck!) drivers in your  
> system (which are apparently 32-bit only), this has nothing to do  
> with R, really ...

Thanks a lot. Unfortunately the Dell drivers are there by design - our  
lab printer is a Dell and I need those drivers to print duplex.

Kasper



> Cheers,
> S
>
>
>> System details below
>>
>> Kasper
>>
>> I am using 10.5.6 (all updates) with the newest stable release of  
>> Xcode (I think it is 3.1) and
>> kasper-hansens-macbook:~/> gfortran --version
>> GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.2.3
>> Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>
>> from Simon's website
>>
>> > sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.9.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-01-12 r47571)
>> i386-apple-darwin9.6.0
>>
>> locale:
>> en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>
>> I compile R using the following script
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>> cd R-devel
>> svn up
>> LANG=C
>> export LANG
>> tools/rsync-recommended
>> ./configure SHELL='/bin/bash' \
>> CC="/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 -arch x86_64 -std=gnu99" \
>> CFLAGS="-g -O2 -std=gnu99 -march=nocona" \
>> CXX="/usr/bin/g++-4.2 -arch x86_64" \
>> CXXFLAGS="-g -O2 -march=nocona" \
>> OBJC="/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 -arch x86_64" \
>> F77="/usr/local/bin/gfortran-4.2 -arch x86_64" \
>> FFLAGS="-g -O2 -march=nocona" \
>> FC="/usr/local/bin/gfortran-4.2 -arch x86_64" \
>> FCFLAGS="-g -O2 -march=nocona"
>>
>> make
>> make check
>>
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