Update - sorry for the stupid question, let's say it's pretty late. For those who may be as tired as I am and get the same warning, the paper size should be given as an integer!
On 16 November 2010 04:17, Emmanuel Levy <emmanuel.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > The pdf function would not let me change the paper size and gives me > the following warning: > > pdf("figure.pdf", width="6", height="10") > Warning message: > ‘mode(width)’ and ‘mode(height)’ differ between new and previous > ==> NOT changing ‘width’ & ‘height’ > > If I use the option paper = "a4r", it does not give me a warning > but still prints on a square region (it does not use the entire page). > > Two days ago I updated R and associated packages. I'm not sure if this > could be the cause? Even if I restart a new session I keep getting the > same error. I also tried X11.options(reset=TRUE) and it does not > help. > > Thanks for any hint you could give me, this is really annoying (the > function postscript gives the same error so I cannot make any > figure!). > all the best, > > Emmanuel > >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.12.0 (2010-10-15) > Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) > > locale: > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C > [3] LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8 > [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8 > [7] LC_PAPER=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > ______________________________________________ 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.