On May 19, 2011, at 8:45 AM, Karl Forner wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry if it is not the right place.. > > > I installed R-2.13.0 on a x86_64 linux server. > All went fine, but the svg() function yells: >> svg() > Error in svg() : cairo-based devices are not supported on this build > > I have the Cairo, cairoDevice, RSvgDevice packages installed, and running. >
Those are irrelevant for svg() which is provided by built-in cairo support in R, not the packages, so you want to check capabilities(): > capabilities("cairo") cairo TRUE But if you have working Cairo package can simply use CairoSVG() instead of svg(). Cheers, Simon >> Cairo.capabilities() > png jpeg tiff pdf svg ps x11 win > TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE > > I tried to google around unsuccessfully. The only thing I noticed in > config.log is: > r_cv_has_pangocairo=no > r_cv_cairo_works=yes > r_cv_has_cairo=yes > #define HAVE_WORKING_CAIRO 1 > #define HAVE_CAIRO_PDF 1 > #define HAVE_CAIRO_PS 1 > #define HAVE_CAIRO_SVG 1 > > > So what can be wrong ?? > > Thank you > > Karl > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel