You just don't have write access to the directory you are working in. That's what the second part of the message is telling you.
HTH Ray Brownrigg Victoria University of Welington On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, j daniel wrote: > Hello - > > I am trying to create a pdf file in R, but I keep getting an error that > says > > it cannot open the pdf device. Here is the code and output: > > pdf(file="test.pdf") > > Error in pdf(file = "test.pdf") : unable to start device pdf > In addition: Warning message: > In pdf(file = "test.pdf") : cannot open 'pdf' file argument 'test.pdf' > > Until yesterday I could use the pdf() function without problems, so I am > not sure what happened. The error does not go away if I restart R or > restart my computer. Any ideas??? ______________________________________________ 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.
