Thanks Simon. There was no help page for "toFile" (the first thing I tried)
so I didn't realize it was an Rgraphviz function. I'll contact the
maintainers.

Mark

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On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org
> wrote:

> Mark,
>
> I think you have the wrong list - this has nothing to do with R. to File()
> is a function in Rgraphviz and it doesn't crash, it simply exits R.
> Obviously it doesn't support path expansion (I suppose it should consider
> calling path.expand()) and it should also consider using R_error() instead
> of quitting -- but both issues should be best addressed to the Rgraphviz
> maintainers.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
> On May 16, 2011, at 10:50 PM, Mark Kimpel wrote:
>
> > I was running some sample code from a help page tonight and wished to
> > redirect the sample output to my Desktop under Linux (Mint-Debian 64 if
> it
> > makes a different). I was surprised to find that file name expansion
> using
> > the ubuquitious "~/" was not recognized, in fact it caused R to crash. Is
> > this expected behavior? See my output below and sessionInfo().  Also, not
> > shown, but 'setwd("~/Desktop")' works just fine.  Thanks, Mark
> >
> > # sample code from Rgraphviz clusterData help page
> > library(graph)
> > library(Rgraphviz)
> > g1_gz <-
> gzfile(system.file("GXL/graphExample-01.gxl.gz",package="graph"),
> > open="rb")
> > g11_gz <-
> gzfile(system.file("GXL/graphExample-11.gxl.gz",package="graph"),
> > open="rb")
> > g1 <- fromGXL(g1_gz)
> > g11 <- fromGXL(g11_gz)
> > g1_11 <- join(g1, g11)
> > sgl <- vector(mode="list", length=2)
> > sgl[[1]] <- list(graph=g1, cluster=TRUE)
> > sgl[[2]] <- list(graph=g11, cluster=TRUE)
> > ng <- agopenSimple(g1_11, "tmpsg", subGList=sgl)
> > clusterData(ng, 1, c("bgcolor")) <- c("blue")
> > clusterData(ng, 2, c("bgcolor")) <- c("red")
> > ############################################
> > # and now 2 usually equivalent ways to specify the location for output
> file,
> > with the second way crashing:
> > toFile(ng, layoutType="dot", filename="/home/mkimpel/Desktop/
> g1_11_dot.ps",
> > fileType="ps")
> > NULL
> > toFile(ng, layoutType="dot", filename="~/Desktop/g1_11_dot.ps",
> > fileType="ps")
> > ~/Desktop/g1_11_dot.ps: No such file or directory
> >
> > Process R exited abnormally with code 1 at Mon May 16 22:42:12 2011
> > #################################################
> > # and my sessionInfo()
> > R version 2.13.0 (2011-04-13)
> > Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> >
> > locale:
> > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8       LC_NUMERIC=C
> > LC_TIME=en_US.utf8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8     LC_MONETARY=C
> >
> > [6] LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8    LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8
> > LC_NAME=C                 LC_ADDRESS=C              LC_TELEPHONE=C
> >
> > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices datasets  utils     methods   base
> > ####################################################
> > Mark W. Kimpel MD  ** Neuroinformatics ** Dept. of Psychiatry
> > Indiana University School of Medicine
> >
> > 15032 Hunter Court, Westfield, IN  46074
> >
> > (317) 490-5129 Work, & Mobile & VoiceMail
> > (317) 399-1219 Skype No Voicemail please
> >
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