On 12/06/2020 03:49, Fox, John wrote:
Dear Simon,

On Jun 11, 2020, at 9:00 PM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote:

Wayne,

that one is unrelated, but interesting - you can fix it with

sudo install_name_tool -change \
  /usr/local/lib:/opt/X11/lib/libtk8.6.dylib \
  /usr/local/lib/libtk8.6.dylib \
  /usr/local/bin/wish8.6

There is a bug in tcltk with IDs on the libraries which I have worked-around 
for R, but not for wish.

Back to the original question - do you have any example of a file that doesn't 
work so I could test? Exif chunks are fairly rare in PNG and are a more late 
extension so I couldn't find any examples.

The code in Wayne's original message (copied below) generated the offending 
file:

library(tcltk)

fname <- "Rplot.png"
png(filename = fname, width = 500, height = 500)
hist(rnorm(20))
dev.off()

tkimage.create("photo", file = fname)

There are several png() devices for R. The default on macOS is to use Quartz, and that depends on macOS system functions so might well have changed with Mojave -> Catalina.

As a workaround, try e.g. png(type='cairo').  E.g.

fname <- file.path(tempdir(), "Rplot.png")
png(filename = fname, width = 500, height = 500, type="cairo")
hist(rnorm(20))
dev.off()

library(tcltk)
tkimage.create("photo", file = fname)

works for me on Catalina.


--
Brian D. Ripley,                  rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford

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