Hi Without looking at the help guide I think there are restrictions on resolution and just in case of unit problems I worked in the default units
> png("test.png",units="in",width=12,height=12,res=300) Error in png("test.png", units = "in", width = 12, height = 12, res = 300) : unable to start png() device In addition: Warning messages: 1: In png("test.png", units = "in", width = 12, height = 12, res = 300) : unable to allocate bitmap 2: In png("test.png", units = "in", width = 12, height = 12, res = 300) : opening device failed > 12*72 [1] 864 > png("test.png",width=864,height=834,res=150) > plot(seq(0,1000),rep(10,1001),xaxt="n") > axis(1,seq(0,1000,by=10),at=seq(0,1000,by=10),tick=TRUE) > axis(1, at = thickticks, labels=FALSE, las = 1,lwd.ticks=2) > dev.off() Check ?postscript and the options as eps and pdf require different arguments. > postscript("test.eps", paper = "special", width = 12,height = 12) > plot(seq(0,1000),rep(10,1001),xaxt="n") > axis(1,seq(0,1000,by=10),at=seq(0,1000,by=10),tick=TRUE) > axis(1, at = thickticks, labels=FALSE, las = 1,lwd.ticks=2) > dev.off() > pdf("test.pdf", paper = "special", width = 12,height = 12) > plot(seq(0,1000),rep(10,1001),xaxt="n") > axis(1,seq(0,1000,by=10),at=seq(0,1000,by=10),tick=TRUE) > axis(1, at = thickticks, labels=FALSE, las = 1,lwd.ticks=2) > dev.off() All the above work for me on Win 7 32 platform i386-w64-mingw32 arch i386 os mingw32 system i386, mingw32 Similar to the above has worked on Win 64 Regards Duncan Duncan Mackay Department of Agronomy and Soil Science University of New England Armidale NSW 2351 Email: home: mac...@northnet.com.au -----Original Message----- From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Christian Brandstätter Sent: Tuesday, 31 May 2016 05:24 To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] graphic device Windows tickmarks Dear List, I discovered an issue; when plotting (base) in R, the tickmark-labels are slightly off (Windows machine). Thus, when saving the plot in R with x11() and dev(...) the plot-tickmarks shift, see the example below. Session Info: R version 3.2.3 (2015-12-10) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1 With savePlot it works, but the graph quality is not as nice. Am I missing something here? Example: thickticks <- c(0,40,90,140,200,260,320,380,440,500,560,620,680,740,800,860,920,980) x11(width=12,height=12) plot(seq(0,1000),rep(10,1001),xaxt="n") axis(1,seq(0,1000,by=10),at=seq(0,1000,by=10),tick=TRUE) axis(1, at = thickticks, labels=FALSE, las = 1,lwd.ticks=2) # plots dev.print(device=png,"test.png",units="in",width=12,height=12,res=500) # won't display prop. dev.print(device=postscript,"test.eps",width=12,height=12) # won't display prop. dev.print(device=pdf,"test.pdf",width=12,height=12) # won't display prop. savePlot("test_2.png",type="png") # displays prop. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.