On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: > > On Mar 31, 2010, at 18:38 , Seth Falcon wrote: > >> On 3/31/10 1:12 PM, Christophe Genolini wrote: >>> >>> Hi the list, >>> I am writing a package that happen to not be compatible with linux >>> because I did not know that the function "savePlot" was available only >>> on windows. Is there a list of "incompatible" function? How can I get >>> this kind of information? >> >> One way is to obtain a copy of the R sources and then grep the Rd files >> for '#ifdef'. >> >> I don't claim this is convenient. >> > > nor sufficient - lot of it is simply in the windows directory (such as > savePlot). > The safest approach right now is simply to read the documentation - savePlot > does tell you that it works only for the Windows device. I'm not aware of an > automated list (save for dumping the function lists per-package on each > platform).
It works only on the "windows()" device on the Windows platform. The savePlot function *is* on the Linux platform (contrary to OP message, modulo whether a mention of 'windows' meant the platform or the device) but only for Cairo x11() devices. Clear? Barry ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel