R help - Mar 2013 - 2 questions about svg output

Hi everybody :)

I use R to plot things in svg format. One of the things is text, of course.	
I noticed that text() in svg() gets saved as path, which is unacceptable
for my purposes. (Interestingly, text() in cairo_pdf() gets saved as text.)
Is there a way to save text as text in svg?

And paths also is what I plot a lot. I know there is segments(), which plots
disconnected segments, and things like polypath(), which create closed paths
(and subpaths). These are all very useful, but is there a function to draw
a multi-segment path without closing it? That is, without connecting the
last vertex to the first one?

Thanks!

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Hi

On 14/03/13 09:52, Ivan Zaigralin wrote:
> Hi everybody :)
>
> I use R to plot things in svg format. One of the things is text, of course.
> I noticed that text() in svg() gets saved as path, which is unacceptable
> for my purposes. (Interestingly, text() in cairo_pdf() gets saved as text.)
> Is there a way to save text as text in svg?
You could try the 'gridSVG' package, but that will only work if your 
graphics are grid/lattice/ggplot2.
> And paths also is what I plot a lot. I know there is segments(), which
plots
> disconnected segments, and things like polypath(), which create closed
paths
> (and subpaths). These are all very useful, but is there a function to draw
> a multi-segment path without closing it? That is, without connecting the
> last vertex to the first one?
Try lines() (or grid.lines())

Paul
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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