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Got an error trying to run the PicTeX graphics driver in Version 0.50 Beta (Sept 29, 1997) of R under Windows 95. When I executed pictex() I got the following error message: Error in device("pictex", as.character(c(file, bg, fg)), c(width, height, : unable to start device pictex > It looks like the command exists but not the code to implement it. Mark Otto, Biological

Dear R-users It is me again with my interminables questions... This time it is about "pictex". I understood that pictex allows us to put our graph in a latex file I have try the function: > pictex (file=...) and the answer was: "pictex" not found... Does it mean that it is not an R-function yet? Thank you for any feedback. Halima from Leiden

Robert Gentleman <rgentlem at stat.auckland.ac.nz> writes: > Help Files > ========== > Has anyone had any experience with latex2rtf and then on to windows help? > We can hope that people have netscape and then simply use the html version > but it would be nice if there were some easy way to produce real windows > help. Please keep the nroff versions and the old help()

Is the pictex graphics device known not to support color? In R 2.0.1 Patched (2004-11-17), it produced very pretty output: ## pictex(file = "modern-metatheonomy.tex", bg = "transparent"); ## plotData(data); ## dev.off() ... but it appears to have ignored all color information. __________ Steve Rowley <steve.rowley at sanofi-aventis.com> Cambridge, MA: (617) 768-4054

> From rossetti at stat.unipg.it Sat Dec 13 09:53 NZD 1997 > Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 21:47:58 +0100 > From: Andrea Rossetti <rossetti at stat.unipg.it> > MIME-Version: 1.0 > To: Robert Gentleman <rgentlem at stat.auckland.ac.nz>, r-devel <r-devel at stat.math.ethz.ch>, r-help <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> > Subject: Re: R-beta: new executable >

I'm just about to put an autosave feature into R as per requests by Peter and Kurt. My current thinking is that it should be an option so that it is setable (in the profile if you want). One simply specifies the number of commands that are executed between calls to save. It won't be incremental; I'll just dump the output of ls(). I think that the file name should not be .RData but

I've just put up (12:00 noon NZ) yet another tmp.zip with the fixes for Peter Dalgaards two bugs. Niels reports that the 3.51 problems are now different but not solved. I'm trying to locate a 3.51 machine and will post another fix. Can I get some feedback on how people want these "patches" delivered? Should I be numbering them and keeping the old patches? I don't want to

Dear Bug Team: I encountered a bug when trying to make a barplot with the pictex output device. The following commands demonstrate the bug: ----------------------------------------------- > errors <- c(3.08, 35.38, 33.85, 20.00, 7.69) > errors [1] 3.08 35.38 33.85 20.00 7.69 > pictex() > barplot(errors) Error: Bad units specified in GConvert, please report! >

Greetings- I'm aware that there's no documentation for pictex available easily (that is, without purchasing it). I'm wondering if someone can help me with a simple task. When generating a plot using pictex() from R, one of the commands I use is mtext("Dimension 2: L=xxxx", side=2, line=3) when using X11(), this appears vertically along the Y axis; when using pictex(), it

Dear R People, I want to include a barplot corresponding to a simple discrete probability distribution in a LaTeX document. I decided to use the pictex driver. After a certain amount of messing about, I came up the stuff below. It does not look too bad, however, there is one very obvious piece of weirdness, ie. the y axis terminates at 0.1 and does not extend down further. I tried to adjust this

Hi everyone, I have just received a bug from one of my students. It concerns the pictex command to produce plots in latex format. It seems to add lines on the graph even in the most simplest cases. For example, try the following quadratic curve: plot(1:11,(-5:5)^2,type="b",main="Simple Example Plot") Now, saving the plot with the following command:

Greetings- I've got some plots I'd like to include in a LaTeX document; specifically, I'd like to include them via pictex() so I can edit some of the particulars directly. However, an odd problem is coming up: a diagonal line is drawn from bottom-left to upper-right when using pictex(). This does not happen using X11() or postscript() with the same series of commands. Any ideas why

Hi, I am very new to R and trying to bring my plot of residuals to my LaTex document, and seems as I need some help. I first tried the example from the help file, e.g. pictex(file="model1.tex", width=5, height=4) plot(1:11,(-5:5)^2, type='b', main="Simple Example Plot") dev.off() this worked fine in LaTex when I did : \centerline{\input{Rplots.tex}} However, with

> * Prof Brian Ripley <evcyrl at fgngf.bk.np.hx> [2006-03-29 15:39:17 +0100]: > > Have you reported this to pictex()'s author? no, I have no idea who that is. > Remember that it is a contributed graphics device, and not one r-core > is maintaining. You could also submit a patch yourself. > > There is quite a lot wrong with it, as it has not been more than >

The R core team proudly presents: \||||||||/ -R 0.61.1- /||||||||\ I've just rolled together a new patch release. It's available from the Auckland repository now, but please do not get it from there unless you are in a terrible hurry. It should find its way to the main CRAN site in Vienna this evening and then to the rest of the CRAN sites. There's also a

The R core team proudly presents: \||||||||/ -R 0.61.1- /||||||||\ I've just rolled together a new patch release. It's available from the Auckland repository now, but please do not get it from there unless you are in a terrible hurry. It should find its way to the main CRAN site in Vienna this evening and then to the rest of the CRAN sites. There's also a

Hi This is for developers of extension packages that provide extra *graphics devices* for R. In the *development* version of R, support has been added to the graphics engine for rendering polygons with holes (e.g., maps with lakes with islands ...). The API change is a new dev_Path() function for graphics devices. The R_GE_version constant (in GraphicsEngine.h) has been bumped up to 8 as a

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

[I'm refiling this one due to mailer config messup] I get an error whenever I try to plot a histogram in pictex. The error doesn't occur for X11 or postscript. > x<-c(1,2,3) > pictex() > hist(x) Error: Bad units specified in GConvert, please report! platform i686-unknown-linux arch i686 os linux

----- Forwarded message from Stelios Zimeras <szimeras at irisa.fr> ----- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 11:35:52 +0200 From: Stelios Zimeras <szimeras at irisa.fr> Organization: IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, FRANCE X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en To: rgentlem at stat.auckland.ac.nz Subject: R installation problem Dear Sir, I try