You need recent enough cairo libraries in your OS. Your OS appears to date from mid 2006, so likely you need a later cairo: my system is using cairo 1.4.10 and found all the backends.
Your kernel is quite old: does your OS have kernel and cairo updates you have not applied? On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Sam McClatchie wrote: > System: 2.6.0 > Linux kernel 2.6.15 Ubuntu dapper > R version 2.5.1 > ESS 5.2.11 on Emacs 21.4.1 > > Colleagues > > I am still struggling to produce SVG file output in R. > > I initially started with RSvgDevice package. I produced a simple graphic > from an example in the documentation and it imported into Inkscape fine > and could be edited. However, my application involves plotting > bathymetry and coastlines with the PBSmapping, and the plots contain a > lot of data. Although I can still produce a file, and the screen graphic > looks fine, Inkscape will not load the 1.8 MB file. > > I wasn't sure if the problem was with Inkscape or with the SVG file. I > thought I'd try the Cairo package to see if RSvgDevice was failing > because of the file size. I've install Cairo and used update.packages() > to get the 1.3-5 version which has the SVG device driver. However, the > Cairo.capabilities() function returns true for png, jpeg, and x11, but > false for > svg, ps, pdf and tiff. The error message returned from the call to > Cairo_svg() is "Cairo compiled without svg device". So my question is: > How do you to compile Cairo with the svg device? Do you have to do this > from source with some --enabled switch? The install.packages() and > update.packages() does not seem to do it? > > Best fishes > > Sam > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
