On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Martin Maechler wrote: >>>>>> "LH" == Louise Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>>> on Sat, 1 Mar 2008 00:54:56 +0100 writes: > > >> If you still want to then read ?write.table, that can export your data > >> into a spreadsheet-like ascii format which can be used from GNUplot > >> easily. > > LH> Very interesting. > > LH> So if I e.g. write: > LH> ts.sim <- arima.sim(list(order = c(1,1,0), ar = 0.7), n = 200) > LH> ts.plot(ts.sim) > > LH> How do I know the names of the rows to put in the data.frame() command? > > >> Btw, comparing the graphics capabilities of GNUplot and R, it is > >> something like a three-wheel bicycle and a spaceship. Guess > >> which is which. > > LH> =) I know that I will most likely spend a lot of time on just making > LH> the plots, but I atleast (for now =) ) think it could be fun to try. > > if you make them with R, yes. > > I wholeheartedly support Gabor's point: > > I'd consider GNUplot to be clearly inferior to R -- just talking > about the graphics possibilties and the quality / thoughtfulness > in the high-level plotting. > If you have your data / objects / functions in R, > I'm very strongly convinced that using GNUplot for plotting is > ``the wrong'' approach by almost all definitions of "wrong".
In a later message Louise mentioned the desire to use TeX fonts for annotation, to match a LaTeX document. Paul Murrell has pointed out his and my article in R-News 2006-2 about how to do this. Louise almost mentioned the 'the gnuplot cvs which have pdfcairo support'. Well, R too has development versions, and I was able to do > par(family="cmr10") > plot(1:10) in R-devel and get annotations in Computer Modern on screen, or > cairo_pdf() > par(family="cmr10") > plot(1:10) and get this on a PDF file. To do so you would need /usr/share/fonts/mathml/cmr10.ttf installed, at least on F8 (part of the mathml-fonts RPM). -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.