R help - Mar 2007 - landscape pdf

Hello together!

How can I plot a landscape letter-format plot? With postscript, I just
use the horizontal option and I get what I want, but it seems that the
pdf lacks this option. Well, I could do a ps2pdf conversion of the
generated ps-file. But is there a way to directly produce landscape
pdf-plots with R?

Thanks for any help.

Greetings,

Sebastian

Sebastian Weber wrote:
> Hello together!
> 
> How can I plot a landscape letter-format plot? With postscript, I just
> use the horizontal option and I get what I want, but it seems that the
> pdf lacks this option. Well, I could do a ps2pdf conversion of the
> generated ps-file. But is there a way to directly produce landscape
> pdf-plots with R?

By setting arguments width > height?

Uwe Ligges


> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Sebastian
> 
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PDF does not have orientation: just set the width > height in pdf() to get 
a 'landscape' plot.

The 'horizontal' option in postscript() was originally (in S/S-PLUS) 
designed for sending plots direct to a printer: pdf() does not have that 
option either.

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Sebastian Weber wrote:
> How can I plot a landscape letter-format plot? With postscript, I just
> use the horizontal option and I get what I want, but it seems that the
> pdf lacks this option. Well, I could do a ps2pdf conversion of the
> generated ps-file. But is there a way to directly produce landscape
> pdf-plots with R?

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