[Tikzdevice-bugs] Graphics APA mismatch

Ista Zahn izahn at psych.rochester.edu
Wed Jul 21 14:45:09 CEST 2010


Thank you Charlie. I installed from Rforge with
install.packages("tikzDevice", repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
and everything is working again.

-Ista

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Charlie Sharpsteen
<chuck at sharpsteen.net> wrote:
> Hi Ista,
> What happened is that the R "Graphics Device Version" got bumped in 2.11.0
> because some new raster functions were added.  tikzDevice 0.4.8 tells R it
> is using an outdated version of the graphics interface and R responds by
> throwing an error.
> This has been fixed in tikzDevice 0.5.0- but due to my being insanely busy I
> haven't yet had an afternoon free to add finishing touches and push it to
> CRAN.  However, builds of 0.5.0 are available from R-Forge:
>   install.packages( 'tikzDevice', repos = 'http://r-forge.r-project.org' )
> The only things missing that need to be added before the package goes to
> CRAN are some clarifications and tweaks to the documentation.  Functionally
> speaking, the version of 0.5.0 on R-Forge is the same as the version that
> will appear on CRAN.  In addition to supporting the new graphics interface
> version 0.5.0 fixes some issues with fontsizes that affected lattice and
> ggplot2 graphics.
> Thanks for reporting this- if tikzDevice 0.4.8 does not work under the
> latest version of R, then I need to find time to get 0.5.0 on to CRAN as
> soon as possible.
> -Charlie
>
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Ista Zahn <izahn at psych.rochester.edu>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Ista Zahn <izahn at psych.rochester.edu>
>> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > I recently ran into a problem with the tikzDevice package.
>> >
>> >> library(tikzDevice)
>> > Loading required package: filehash
>> > filehash: Simple key-value database (2.1 2010-02-04)
>> > tikzDevice: A Device for R Graphics Output in PGF/TikZ Format (v0.4.8)
>> > Checking for a LaTeX compiler...
>> >
>> >
>> > A working LaTeX compiler was found in:
>> >        The R environment variable R_LATEXCMD
>> >
>> > Global option tikzLatex set to:
>> >        /usr/bin/latex
>> >
>> > pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.10-2.2 (TeX Live 2009/Arch Linux)
>> > kpathsea version 5.1.0
>> > Copyright 2009 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
>> > There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
>> > covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and
>> > the Lesser GNU General Public License.
>> > For more information about these matters, see the file
>> > named COPYING and the pdfTeX source.
>> > Primary author of pdfTeX: Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh
>> > (pdfTeX).
>> > Compiled with libpng 1.4.2; using libpng 1.4.3
>> > Compiled with zlib 1.2.5; using zlib 1.2.5
>> > Compiled with poppler version 0.14.0
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> tikz(file = "/home/izahn/Desktop/test.tikz")
>> > Error in tikz(file = "/home/izahn/Desktop/test.tikz") :
>> >  Graphics API version mismatch
>> >
>> > sessionInfo()
>> > R version 2.11.0 (2010-04-22)
>> > i686-pc-linux-gnu
>> >
>> > locale:
>> >  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>> >  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.utf8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8
>> >  [5] LC_MONETARY=C             LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
>> >  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8       LC_NAME=C
>> >  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C              LC_TELEPHONE=C
>> > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>> >
>> > attached base packages:
>> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>> >
>> > other attached packages:
>> > [1] tikzDevice_0.4.8 filehash_2.1
>> >
>> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> > [1] tcltk_2.11.0 tools_2.11.0
>> >
>> > I will be greatful if you can help me resolve the error.
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Ista
>> >
>> > --
>> > Ista Zahn
>> > Graduate student
>> > University of Rochester
>> > Department of Clinical and Social Psychology
>> > http://yourpsyche.org
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ista Zahn
>> Graduate student
>> University of Rochester
>> Department of Clinical and Social Psychology
>> http://yourpsyche.org
>>
>> >
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Ista Zahn
Graduate student
University of Rochester
Department of Clinical and Social Psychology
http://yourpsyche.org


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