From ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk  Thu Mar  8 06:44:10 2001
From: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk (ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 07:44:10 +0100 (MET)
Subject: [Rd] png device driver corrupt! (Rbitmap.dll?) (PR#868)
Message-ID: <200103080644.HAA01708@pubhealth.ku.dk>

Just to be clear, this is a problem only with the precompiled versions on
CRAN, and the sources for Rbitmap.dll are unchanged since 1.2.0.  Indeed,
compiling against libpng-1.0.6 works for me, although it is no longer
current.

Also, it is the build that is corrupt not the png device driver (which is
not in that DLL).

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001 henrikb@braju.com wrote:

> Full_Name: Henrik Bengtsson
> Version: R 1.2.2 for Windows
> OS: Windows Me
> Submission from: (NULL) (216.175.124.217)
>
>
> I downloaded the precompiled Windows version of R v1.2.2 (rw1022) and found out
> that the png graphical device driver is corrupt. Previous versions have worked
> just fine for me.
>
> EXAMPLE:
> > png("test.png")
> > plot(1,1)
> > dev.off()
> libpng error: Application must be recompiled; version 1.0.6 was incompatible
>
> WORK AROUND:
> Until a new version comes out, one can simply replace ${R_HOME}/bin/Rbitmap.dll
> by ditto found in version 1.2.1 (rw1021b1.zip).

Alternatively, build from the sources.

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[Rd] png device driver corrupt! (Rbitmap.dll?) (PR#868)
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