similar to: Metapost device driver

Hi, I know the R can make eps output. But metapost sees to be an even better choice for me. I've been using gnuplot for a while, it seems it has excellent support with its metapost latex terminal. So I can insert any latex equation in the figure. Meanwhile, I can make the font in the figure will be consistent with font used in the main text. I searched R help, but I can not find metapost

I would like to know if a MetaPost device is available or in the plans. A search MetaPost in the documents and list archives did not turn up anything. [I would prefer to use MetaPost when the graphics is to be included in a document that I want in both hard-copy and in pdf formats.] If not, how easy/hard is it to add a new device to R? I caouln't see anything about adding devices in the

I would like to know if a MetaPost device is available or in the plans. A search MetaPost in the documents and list archives did not turn up anything. [I would prefer to use MetaPost when the graphics is to be included in a document that I want in both hard-copy and in pdf formats.] If not, how easy/hard is it to add a new device to R? I caouln't see anything about adding devices in the

Hello, I submit a patch for review that implements code coverage tracing in the R interpreter. It records the lines that are actually executed and their associated frequency for which srcref information is available. I perfectly understands that this patch will not make its way inside R as it is, that they are many concerns of stability, compatibility, maintenance and so on. I would like to have

Hi, I read the 2000 thread on a MetaPost device in R. If I understand correctly, the main problem with the concept is that R wants the device driver to give back information on the size of strings/labels. To the bet of my knowledge, MetaPost _does_ make it possible to measure the bounding box of text (see section 7.3: Measuring text in the MetaPost manual). For example, one could get the size of

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

Hi all, By default, MetaPost passes all text through TeX. This has the advantage of allowing essentially any TeX symbols in titles and labels. It give us, who use the multibyte character in ordinary communication, much convenience. Gnuplot has fulfilled this function, and it give me a deep impression for I could use Chinese character in plots with a minor modification to the MetaPost file. I

Hi there, I want to create plots with some kind of 'complex' axis labelling of the form $\dot{V}$ and integrate those plots into a LaTeX document. What is the best way to go? I've figured out, that the 'plotmath' commands are somewhat limited (at least I wasn't able to get the $\dot{V}$ generated) and that plots with 'plotmath'-axes wouldn't export

Hello, The current xfig device lacks the functionality to set the textspecial flag and use the defaultfont in xfig. This is necessary when you want to export to xfig and use interpreted text (e.g., $ \frac{1}{e}$ gets interpreted by latex). The attached patch adds this functionality. Why would you like to do this? - Use math in labels (e.g., name your variables $r_{xy}$, do a

Hy (I hope this is the right list). 1. Mac porting I'm finishing the porting of R for Mac. I hope to finish it for the end of september. Thanks to the porting of R 0.64 by Ross (that he gave me) I succeded in this porting. This is the current state: Both R 1.1.1. and 1.2.0 works with minor modification to the original code. The Macintosh device has been updated to the new version of

Just got trapped by inconsistency of name of first argument for file-based graphics devices. Both 'file' and 'filename' are currently in use depending on the device. I ran on a machine without PNG support which my code used postscript as the backup device and choked here. > do.call(device, list(filename = pathname, height = height,

Hi all, To develop the metapost driver, I did an svn checkout (R-2-4-branch revision 40647) as instructed in http://developer.r-project.org/SVNtips.html i.e., I did a, svn co $REPOS/branches/R-2-4-branch r-release-branch/R Not being a core developer, can I just commit the changes? Am I on the right branch? Most of the work is in devPS.c, but there are also some documentation changes

Dear all, I am sending a patch for extending pdf device to embed popup text and web links. I implemented this feature by using annotation object, a interactive feature of pdf. You can see a sample code for using this feature in the following, and sample pdf is in

I'm trying to use the pictex driver for bargraphs, and the shading isn't showing up. Is there any way to get some sort of shading in the plots? A hatch or stipple would be fine, too; just some way to differentiate the bars. The postscript driver won't do, since I'm trying to embed this in a LaTeX document which I'll use pdflatex on and \includegraphics for pdftex doesn't

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 sending raster images (bitmaps) to a graphics device. This consists mainly of two new device functions: dev_Raster() and dev_Cap(). The R_GE_version constant (in GraphicsEngine.h) has been bumped up to 6 as a

Hello, I have a few questions now: 1. How can I move data the following way: I have 2 variables: one two 1 5 ^ 3 4 | 1 3 | 4 4 | Now I want to move the two one arround (sorry I don't know how to say that in english). That means: I want to move the first item at the end of my column and move the second at the first place, the third at the second, and so on. You can see it at

The header file still contains the old places for some code that is now in the 'module' section: * currently existing device drivers: * FILE driver name prefix * ---------------------- ------------------ * ../main/devPS.c PS _and_ XFig * ../main/devPicTeX.c PicTeX * ../unix/X11/devX11.c X11 * ../gnuwin32/devga.c GA * ../unix/gnome/devGTK.c GTK * ../unix/gnome/devGNOME.c

Hi, 1. I started work on a metapost graphics driver a week or so ago and it is gradually taking shape. I'm building up my own test cases into a script as I go, but figured you may have a "canonical testing script" of cases a driver must handle? 2. The clipping function looks like being a tricky problem. It seems to me that the callers of the driver assume that clipping affects all

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

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