[R] Create *png or *.jpeg plot under Linux

[Alberto Monteiro]

Marcel wrote:
>
> (...) I can't plot to *.png or *.jpeg files under 
> Linux (Ubuntu) with (...)
> 
> png(file,width=200,height=200) or jpeg(file,width=200,height=200)
> 
A few reasons:

(1) You run R in an account that has no priviledge to
write to the directory. Check if you can write anything,
for example:

sink("test.txt"); cat("Hello, world!"); sink()

if there is a test.txt file, then you can; else this is
the problem.

(2) Maybe file is some evil-coded name, with non-standard characters.
It works under Windows, because Windows encourages the user to
create horrible filenames (when I become the World's Evil Overlord,
I will hunt the jerk that introduced whitespaces in filenames, and
send him/her to the paredón), but not under Linux.

Alberto Monteiro