Thank you for the comments. That driver dates from 1997 or so, and I
believe we failed to contact the author several years ago, but a later
email address is in the THANKS file.
It is really present for historical reasons, and other things change
-- so I have added LaTeX package graphics (although graphicx will do,
graphics suffices) and removed the Plain TeX example.
The tikzDevice in the package of that name might be a suitable
replacement.
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Kyle Matoba wrote:
> The example at ?pictex does not work (the driver apparently uses
> 'rotatebox') for me as stated. It did compile after including the
> graphicsx package. A MWE is at the help page for pictex. I tried to
> get in touch with Valerio but his email bounced. Probably we want to
> add a \usepackage{graphicsx} to the help page and try to track down
> Valerio.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kyle
>
>
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009)
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
> x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
>
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.10.1
>
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