> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Urbanek [mailto:simon.urba...@r-project.org]
> Sent: January-18-12 3:10 PM
> To: Steven McKinney
> Cc: R-devel@r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Rd] png cairo device problems on Mac 10.6.8
>
>
> On Jan 18, 2012, at 5:22 PM, Steven McKinney wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have been having problems generating png files on a Mac running OS X
> 10.6.8.
> >
> > Here's a simple example
> >
> >> png("foo.png", type = "cairo"); plot(1:10); dev.off();
> > null device
> > 1
> > libpng warning: Application built with libpng-1.2.26 but running with
> 1.5.2
> >
> > The resultant file is of size 0 Kb.
> >
> > Is this the proper place to report this issue? Or should this
> > be reported to r-sig-mac?
> >
>
> yes
>
>
> > If I run
> >
> >> png("foo.png"); plot(1:10); dev.off();
> > null device
> > 1
> >
> > I get a 16 Kb file with the appropriate plot. (Odd, since the default
> type is "cairo".)
> >
>
> No, the default is "quartz" unless you change it in your options.
D'oh! I should have verified by reading the source. Apologies for
the misinformation. The fact that "cairo" appears first in the
type argument list does not make it the default.
>
> On a similar note type="cairo-png" works as well.
Yes, type="cairo-png" yields a successful file.
The png() function shows a call of
invisible(.External(devCairo, filename, 2L, g$width, ...
for type="cairo" and a call of
invisible(.External(devCairo, filename, 5L, g$width, ...
with type="cairo-png" so the third argument (2 or 5)
appears to be the only difference. I have not dug into
the devCairo code to see how that arg is handled.
>
> The problem seems to be with R's configuration - for some mysterious reason
> it picks libpng12 flags even though cairo clearly includes libpng15 (and so
> does pkg-config). I'll need to dig a bit into that.
Thank you very much.
Cheers
Steve
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
> > Whenever I see the libpng warning, I end up with a 0 Kb file.
> >
> > Details of R session below.
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Steve McKinney
> >
> >
> >
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> >> png("foo.png"); plot(1:10); dev.off();
> > null device
> > 1
> >> png("foo.png", type = "cairo"); plot(1:10); dev.off();
> > null device
> > 1
> > libpng warning: Application built with libpng-1.2.26 but running with
> 1.5.2
> >> ?png
> > starting httpd help server ... done
> >> capabilities()
> > jpeg png tiff tcltk X11 aqua http/ftp sockets
> libxml fifo
> > TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
> TRUE TRUE
> > cledit iconv NLS profmem cairo
> > TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE
> >> png("foo.png"); plot(1:10); dev.off();
> > null device
> > 1
> >> sessionInfo()
> > R version 2.14.1 Patched (2012-01-11 r58090)
> > Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
> >
> > locale:
> > [1] en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8/C/en_CA.UTF-8/en_CA.UTF-8
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
> >
> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > [1] tools_2.14.1
> >>
> >
> >
> > Steven McKinney, Ph.D.
> >
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> >
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> >
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