postscript() produces files that are not encoded as eps, according to
the standard. Hence, word processors such as OpenOffice and AbiWord do
not recognise the files as eps. See
http://www.postscript.org/FAQs/language/node80.html
The problem is in the first line of the postscript file: The header is
wrong. It should be:
%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
whereas postscript() produces:
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
The following code replicates the problem:
x <- rnorm(10)
y <- rnorm(10)
postscript("test.eps")
plot(x,y)
dev.off()
# Now try importing test.eps into your favorite word processor.
# Now edit test.eps and change the header to the correct header above,
and try importing the file again. Works! (This took me a couple of hours
of hair-pulling to figure out. I sure hope it is a genuine bug. :-) )
Cheers,
Simon.
Version:
platform = x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
arch = x86_64
os = linux-gnu
system = x86_64, linux-gnu
status =
major = 2
minor = 5.1
year = 2007
month = 06
day = 27
svn rev = 42083
language = R
version.string = R version 2.5.1 (2007-06-27)
Locale:
LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_COLLATE=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_MONETARY=en_AU.UTF-8;
LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_PAPER=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_NAME=C;LC_ADDRESS=C;LC_TELEPHONE=C;
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_AU.UTF-8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
Search Path:
.GlobalEnv, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices,
package:utils, package:datasets, package:methods, Autoloads,
package:base
--
Simon Blomberg, BSc (Hons), PhD, MAppStat.
Lecturer and Consultant Statistician
Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences
The University of Queensland
St. Lucia Queensland 4072
Australia
Room 320 Goddard Building (8)
T: +61 7 3365 2506
email: S.Blomberg1_at_uq.edu.au
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1. I will NOT analyse your data for you.
2. Your deadline is your problem.
The combination of some data and an aching desire for
an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can
be extracted from a given body of data. - John Tukey.
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