Re: [Rd] Grapics Device Resolution Limits

2017-02-12 Thread Dario Strbenac
Good day, > In general, the device-limits info is not on the help page because we do not > know it. It seems like it would be near-impossible to do in a cross-platform way. > Normally you will get warning(s) accompanying that Error ... > Warning: unable to allocate bitmap > Warning: opening

Re: [Rd] Grapics Device Resolution Limits

2017-02-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 10/02/2017 19:27, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: Note that there are at least 5 separate png() devices, so Linux was not using the (default) device used on Windows. In general, the device-limits info is not on the help page because we do not know it. On Windows the default device limits depend on

Re: [Rd] Grapics Device Resolution Limits

2017-02-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Note that there are at least 5 separate png() devices, so Linux was not using the (default) device used on Windows. In general, the device-limits info is not on the help page because we do not know it. On Windows the default device limits depend on the OS version, 32/64-bit, RAM and the

Re: [Rd] Grapics Device Resolution Limits

2017-02-10 Thread William Dunlap via R-devel
Were you suppressing warnings? I get a warning along with the "unable to start device 'png'" in some cases where it fails. E.g., on Linux > png("Figure1A.png", h = 7, w = 7, res = 1e5, units = "cm") Error in png("Figure1A.png", h = 7, w = 7, res = 1e+05, units = "cm") : unable to start device

Re: [Rd] Grapics Device Resolution Limits

2017-02-10 Thread Martin Maechler
> Dario Strbenac > on Fri, 10 Feb 2017 02:00:08 + writes: > Good day, > Could the documentation of graphics devices give some explanation of how big the bitmap limits are? For example, >> png("Figure1A.png", h = 7, w = 7, res = 1000,

[Rd] Grapics Device Resolution Limits

2017-02-09 Thread Dario Strbenac
Good day, Could the documentation of graphics devices give some explanation of how big the bitmap limits are? For example, > png("Figure1A.png", h = 7, w = 7, res = 1000, units = "cm") Results in Error: unable to start png() device, but the help page of devices doesn't explain that there are