On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Patrick Giraudoux H wrote:
Dear Listers,
We are organising practical trainings for students with R 2.0.1 under MacOS X. I am used with R 2.0.1 under Windows XP and thus has been surprised not to find functions in the MacOS X version of R providing vectorized chart outputs to a file. For instance the equivalent of:
win.metafile()
or
savePlot()
... including a wmf or emf option.
Can one obtain only jpeg or bitmap or eps files with R under MacOS X or did I miss something?
Why did you expect to find Windows-specific formats under MacOS X? (BTW, these are often bitmap formats.)
You missed pdf (the most obvious one on MacOS X whose native graphic is based on PDF) and svgDevice on CRAN.
Both postscript() and pdf() provide vector graphics (which may be what you mean by `vectorized chart') plots on all R platforms, as does xfig() although it is less useful unless you have xfig/fig2dev.
You will find lots of mentions over the years about making wmf/emf on Unix, but that is for use on Windows. The format is poorly documented, but it would be possible to write a wmf() graphics device -- no one has contributed one as yet.
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