[R] Graphics API version mismatch with RSVGTipsDevice

leandro l.monteiro at hull.ac.uk
Fri Nov 12 15:59:55 CET 2010


Dear Prof. Ripley
Thank you for your help. It works perfectly now. I did not realise that
just using update.packages() was not rebuilding the packages under the
new R version.
Best,
Leandro


On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 14:33 +0000, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> You need to reinstall these packages when you update R.  Have you done
> 
> update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE)
> 
> ?  It's the obvious way to find packages which need updating.
> 
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, leandro wrote:
> 
> > Dear Colleagues
> > I have been struggling with a problem and could not find a similar
> > previous posting in any of my searches, so I decided to write to the
> > list. I am trying to produce svg files from plots using RSVGTipsDevice
> > in R 2.12.0 in Ubuntu 10.04, but I am getting the following error
> > message:
> >> require(RSVGTipsDevice)
> > Loading required package: RSVGTipsDevice
> >> devSVGTips(file = "curves.svg")
> > Error in devSVGTips(file = "curves.svg") : Graphics API version mismatch
> >
> > Although it was working previously, the problem appeared after an update
> > (I think from a previous R version, but not exactly sure when). the
> > RSvgDevice is also not working anymore (it started giving this same
> > error before, while RSVGTipsDevice was still working two months ago).
> >
> > I would really appreciate any help with this matter.
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Leandro
> >
> >
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> > Department of Biological Sciences and
> > Hull York Medical School
> > The University of Hull
> > Hull, HU6 7RX, United Kingdom
> > Tel: 44 1482-462077
> > E-mail: L.Monteiro at hull.ac.uk
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Leandro R. Monteiro
Department of Biological Sciences and
Hull York Medical School
The University of Hull
Hull, HU6 7RX, United Kingdom
Tel: 44 1482-462077
E-mail: L.Monteiro at hull.ac.uk
http://sites.google.com/site/morphogroup/
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