Drama printing from a graphics window using R 1.9.0 patched, ess 5.2.2, and WinXP...

[A.J. Rossini]

Do you have the same problem running Rterm.exe without Emacs/ESS?  If
so, then it's an R problem.  Otherwise, it's an Emacs problem (and
we'll have to put on our thinking caps).

"Michael J. Manning" <michael.manning at niwa.co.nz> writes:

> Hi ESS crew
>
> I am running R version 1.9.0 (the patched version) as an inferior
> process under XEmacs (version 21.4) via ESS (version 5.2.2) on a Windows
> XP box (under sufference).
>
> I seem to be having a problem with printing from a graphics window to
> network printers when running an R session as follows:
>
> (1.) I draw a plot (any plot) on a win.graph() (the call is actually to
> x11, but who's counting...) then
> (2.) I select File-->Print from the menu then
> (3.) the R process returns an error message "unable to choose printer"
>
> I do not have this problem if I start the R (1.9.0 patched) process
> using the GUI and repeat the above steps or if I use an older version
> of R (in this case, 1.7.1) with either ess version 5.1.24 or 5.2.2. I
> observe the behaviour only with more recent versions of R (1.9.0
> patched), regardless of the ess version number (5.1.24 or 5.2.2).
>
> Anybody else seen this behaviour, or, ideally, able to suggest a fix?
>
> Thanks muchly
>
> Michael
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