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Bug in bitmap producing pdf???

2 messages · BXC (Bendix Carstensen), Brian Ripley

BXC (Bendix Carstensen)
# 
I thought I was clever.
I produce both ps and pdf files from LaTeX (MiKTeX), so
sometimes I need to get .eps graphs from R, sometmes .pdf.

To rationalize this I wrote the following function to let me
easily choos what I want wihtou changing the code in my
R-programs too much (here embedded in a small test program):

plt <- 
function( file,
          type = "pdf",
           dir = options()$grdir,
        height = 7,
         width = 7,
         paper = "special",
           ... ) 
{
if ( type=="pdf" )
{
print ( paste( dir, file, ".pdf", sep="" ) ) #just cheking...
   bitmap( file = paste( dir, file, ".pdf", sep="" ),
           type = "pdfwrite",
         height = height,
          width = width,
            ... )
}

if ( type=="eps" )
{
print ( paste( dir, file, ".eps", sep="" ) ) #just checking...
   postscript( file = paste( dir, file, ".eps", sep="" ),
             height = height,
              width = width,
         horizontal = F,
              paper = paper,
                ... )
}
par( mgp=c(2,0.7,0) )
}

# If not set plots will be in pdf-format
 options( grdir="../eps/" )

pl.type <- "eps"  
plt( file="ar", pl.type )
plot(1,1) 

pl.type <- "pdf"  
plt( file="ar", pl.type )
plot(1,1) 

But what I get is:
_         
platform Windows   
arch     x86       
os       Win32     
system   x86, Win32
status             
major    1         
minor    1.1       
year     2000      
month    August    
day      15        
language R
[1] "../eps/ar.eps"
[1] "../eps/ar.pdf"
Error in tempfile("Rbit") : cannot find unused tempfile name
The error comes with the pdf-bit even if I interchange the two 
parts doing the different kinds of files.

Any clues??

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Bendix Carstensen
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Brian Ripley
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On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, BXC (Bendix Carstensen) wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Try cleaning out your temp directory? The message is that it cannot
create a file with name starting with Rbit in that directory.
This is a file system problem, not a bitmap() problem.