On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Stephan Kolassa wrote:
Hi JD,
do you have the pdf open in some app, e.g., Acrobat Reader? If the file is
open, R can't write on it. My (German) errors in this case look like yours:
Fehler in pdf(paste(pic.directory, "/full_map.pdf", sep = "")) :
unable to start device pdf
Zusätzlich: Warning message:
In pdf(paste(pic.directory, "/full_map.pdf", sep = "")) :
cannot open 'pdf' file argument 'Pictures/full_map.pdf'
Just close the Acrobat Reader or whatever.
Best,
Stephan
I would advise looking into this as a source of your problems also. I am
always getting bitten by it when using LaTex.
On Vista it is even more tricky than on XP. If you have the pdf selected
(highlighted), Vista (with my settings at least) puts up a little preview
of the pdf alongside the directory listing, and in doing so locks the pdf
so you can't write to it.
Very annoying.
David Scott
j daniel schrieb:
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???
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