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saving files using quartz engine

4 messages · Denis Chabot, Brian Ripley, Ross.Darnell at csiro.au

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Denis Chabot
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Hi,

is there a reason that the quartz device does not like the "~" in file names, whereas most functions handling files (including pdf() ) have no problem with it?

Thus 

pdf(file="/Users/dchabot/Documents/Programmes R/test.pdf", type="pdf", width=6, height=5) # works
pdf(file=~/Documents/Programmes R/test.pdf", type="pdf", width=6, height=5) # works

quartz(file="~/Documents/Programmes R/test.pdf", type="pdf", width=6, height=5) # does not work
quartz(file="/Users/dchabot/Documents/Programmes R/test.pdf", type="pdf", width=6, height=5) # works

Cheers,

Denis
16 days later
Brian Ripley
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On Wed, 2 Nov 2011, Denis Chabot wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Yes.
[Hint: no one contributed a patch for this wishlist item.  The authors 
of mainstream graphics devices were generous enough to add tilde 
expansion: but you failed to thank them!  Do remember that the people 
who gave you the gift of R are listening.]

The author of pdf().

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

        

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Ross.Darnell at csiro.au
    

    

      
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Are you sure the second case works?

Ross Darnell

        
On 3/11/11 12:21 PM, "Denis Chabot" <chabot.denis at gmail.com> wrote:

        

            

      
      
      
    

        

      
      
    

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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Dear Ross,

I apologize, there was careless cut and paste, I am sorry. And my message took long to appear on the list because I accidentally used an email address other than the one I subscribed with, so that it had to be cleared manually before it appeared. Thanks to the moderator for allowing it, by the way, and to you for pointing the error.

I was a bit behind at the time (R 2.13.1, but 2.13.2 was out). I am way behind now, as I did not have time to upgrade to 2.14. I cannot be certain this is still an issue, but I would like to at least post a correct example.

pdf(file="/Users/dchabot/Documents/Programmes R/test.pdf") # works
plot(1:10)
dev.off()

pdf(file="~/Documents/Programmes R/test.pdf") # works
plot(1:10)
dev.off()

quartz(file="~/Documents/Programmes R/test.pdf", type="pdf") # does not work
plot(1:10)
dev.off()

quartz(file="/Users/dchabot/Documents/Programmes R/test.pdf", type="pdf") # works
plot(1:10)
dev.off()

Only the 3rd example does not work:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Erreur dans quartz(file = "~/Documents/Programmes R/test.pdf", type = "pdf") : 
 Impossible de cr?er le p?riph?rique cible Quartz, le type fourni n'est peut-?tre pas support?.

            

      
      
      
    

        
null device 
         1 
Sat Nov 19 19:47:13 MBPi7Chabot.local R[389] <Error>: CGDataConsumerCreateWithFilename: failed to open `/Users/dchabot/~/Documents/Programmes R/test.pdf' for writing: No such file or directory.
deflateEnd: error -3: (null).
Sat Nov 19 19:47:13 MBPi7Chabot.local R[389] <Error>: CGPDFContextCreate: failed to create PDF context delegate.

In his reply to my post, Prof. Ripley said that tilde expansion had to be implemented into each graphics device. I did not know that, I thought it was built-in R because of its Unix roots. So I guess we now have the answer. It is not a big deal having to write the complete path, it just took me by surprise. 

I would like to offer to add tilde expansion to quartz(), but I am not qualified to do so.

Denis
Le 2011-11-19 ? 16:35, <Ross.Darnell at csiro.au> <Ross.Darnell at csiro.au> a ?crit :