[Rd] MiKTeX/yap/Ghostcript issues with R-generated postscript

[Uwe Ligges]

Dominick Samperi wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I wonder if anybody has encountered this problem?
> 
> While MiKTeX/yap/Ghostscript seems to work fine on most TeX files that I 
> have
> tested (including a great deal of postscript graphics), there is one 
> file where the
> graphics works ok for all postscript files except one, the only one that 
> is generated
> by R. I get an error "Some postscript specials could not be rendered", 
> and the
> details of the error message are in the attached file.
> 
> This same dvi file displays fine under Linux.
> 
> I'm using yap from MiKTeX 2.4 with the "most popular" installation option.
>


Hmmm, has not happened for me within the last couple of years I was 
using R + MikTeX 2.4 ...

Can you specify a reproducible example for the R code that produces that 
PostScript file, please?
[Wild guess: Maybe you forgot to close the device by dev.off()?]

Uwe Ligges



> Any tips would be appreciated,
> Dominick
> 
> 
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> 
> Error: /undefined in 411 at endspecial
> Operand stack:
>    --nostringval--   PermitFileReading   --nostringval--   PermitFileWriting   --nostringval--
> Execution stack:
>    %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   1   3   %oparray_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--
> Dictionary stack:
>    --dict:1125/1686(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:71/200(L)--   --dict:95/300(L)--   --dict:63/200(L)--
> Current allocation mode is local
> MiKTeX GPL Ghostscript 8.15: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
> 
> 
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