Hi
Jeffrey Horner wrote: > Paul Murrell wrote: >> Hi >> >> >> Thomas Lumley wrote: >>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >>>> There are several devices in packages, and this has been possible since at >>>> least R 1.4.0 (from 2001). There used to be gtkDevice (still on CRAN, but >>>> old Gtk), GNOMEdevice (never finished) and an SVG driver >>>> (http://www.darkridge.com/~jake/RSvg/), and there are now cairoDevice on >>>> CRAN, the quartz device in the R.app front-end, and others. >>>> >>>> Paul Murrell used to have a list of known graphics devices, but I was >>>> unable to locate it quickly. >>>> >>> There's one at >>> http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/R/devices.html >>> but I don't know how up-to-date it is. >> >> Neither do I :) but I think most of the existing ones are mentioned >> there. (except for Cairo, which has now been added). I have heard talk >> of a driver for MetaPost and one for OpenGL at different times, there >> was even one from a company wanting one for "our own vector graphics >> language", but I don't know if they came to anything. > > There's also the Cairo (png and pdf output) and GDD (png) packages for > *NIX from www.rforge.net. The Cairo PDF output is nice as it embeds > Truetype and OpenType fonts automatically. Ah! Thanks! I had lost track of the Cairo/cairoDevice and GDD/xGD alphabet soup :) Paul -- Dr Paul Murrell Department of Statistics The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland New Zealand 64 9 3737599 x85392 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
