Same with the Mac, in fact, Skim (and others) can be made to notice changes and reload the PDF when necesary.
greetings, el on 10/22/08 9:28 AM Martin Maechler said the following: >>>>>> "SK" == Stephan Kolassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>> on Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:28:09 +0200 writes: > > SK> Hi JD, do you have the pdf open in some app, e.g., > SK> Acrobat Reader? If the file is open, R can't write on > SK> it. My (German) errors in this case look like yours: > > SK> Fehler in pdf(paste(pic.directory, "/full_map.pdf", sep > SK> = "")) : unable to start device pdf Zusätzlich: Warning > SK> message: In pdf(paste(pic.directory, "/full_map.pdf", > SK> sep = "")) : cannot open 'pdf' file argument > SK> 'Pictures/full_map.pdf' > > SK> Just close the Acrobat Reader or whatever. > > or even better: Close your OS (MS Windows) and start using a > better one. > > E.g., on all Linux versions I know I can write to files open in > acroread (or any ofther of the several alternatives on Linux) > and then "reload" the file inside the PDF viewer. > > Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich ______________________________________________ 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.
