[R] Unable to run dev.new

[Joshua Wiley]

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Duncan,
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> Ubuntu 10.04
> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
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> Debian 504
> R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
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> Both R were installed on repo.  What can I do?  Thanks

When I was using Lenny (Debian 505 I think) I found this page really
helpful, perhaps it will help you also.

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/README.html

I was able to get my version of R up to the latest quite easily by
just adding the one line to my sources.list file.

Josh

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> B.R.
> Stephen L
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
> To: Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "r-help at r-project.org" <r-help at r-project.org>
> Sent: Tue, August 31, 2010 11:57:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] Unable to run dev.new
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> On 31/08/2010 11:52 AM, Stephen Liu wrote:
>> Hi folks,
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>> Debian 504 64 bit.
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>> Have spent more than 2 hours on dev.new and can't make it to work.
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>> > dev.new(height = 6, width = 12)
>> Error in dev.new(height = 6, width = 12) :   unused argument(s) (height = 6,
>>width = 12)
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>> r-base-core has been installed.  The command should be correct.  I have run it
>>before.
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>> Finally I started another VM, Ubuntu 10.04, also 64 bit, and then R.  The
>>command abovementioned works without problem starting the plot window.
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>> It looks quite funny to me.  Any help?
>>
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> You don't state your R version, but an earlier message from you hinted it might
> be 2.7.1.  The dev.new() function was modified in 2.8.0 to be able to handle
> those parameters.
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> The current release is 2.11.1, so your copy is way out of date, if it's really
> 2.7.1.
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> Duncan Murdoch
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Joshua Wiley
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