[Rd] png() error in recent R-devel on Windows

[Duncan Murdoch]

Thanks, will fix.

Duncan Murdoch

On 29/05/2009 7:32 PM, Hervé Pagès wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Tested with the latest r-devel snapshot build for Windows (2009-05-28 r48663):
> 
>  > png("test.png")
> Error in png("test.png") : invalid value of 'fillOddEven'
> 
> The png() function is defined like this:
> 
>  > png
> function (filename = "Rplot%03d.png", width = 480, height = 480,
>      units = "px", pointsize = 12, bg = "white", res = NA, restoreConsole = TRUE)
> {
>      if (!checkIntFormat(filename))
>          stop("invalid 'filename'")
>      filename <- path.expand(filename)
>      units <- match.arg(units, c("in", "px", "cm", "mm"))
>      if (units != "px" && is.na(res))
>          stop("'res' must be specified unless 'units = \"px\"'")
>      height <- switch(units, `in` = res, cm = res/2.54, mm = res/25.4,
>          px = 1) * height
>      width <- switch(units, `in` = res, cm = res/2.54, mm = 1/25.4,
>          px = 1) * width
>      invisible(.External(Cdevga, paste("png:", filename, sep = ""),
>          width, height, pointsize, FALSE, 1L, NA_real_, NA_real_,
>          bg, 1, as.integer(res), NA_integer_, FALSE, .PSenv, NA,
>          restoreConsole, "", FALSE))
> }
> 
> Note that the call to .External has 19 arguments, the last 2 of them being
> "" and FALSE but the devga() function defined in src/library/grDevices/src/init.c
> expects 1 more argument (19 + the entry point name), the last 3 of them
> being expected to be string (title), logical (clickToConfirm), and
> logical (fillOddEven). So it seems like the recently added 'fillOddEven'
> argument (r48294) is omitted in the .External call, hence the error.
> 
>  > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.10.0 Under development (unstable) (2009-05-28 r48663)
> i386-pc-mingw32
> 
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> Cheers,
> H.
> 
>