--- On Sat, 22/10/11, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Oct 2011, Duncan Murdoch > wrote: > > > On 11-10-21 8:57 PM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > >> I have had some fun in the last few days trying to > put together an annotated map of China with R and some > public GIS data: > >> > >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/outmodedbonsai/files/snpMatrix%20next/1.17.7.11/China_Choropleth_Maps.pdf/download > >> > >> It is done, and rather nice... there are a few > issues: > >> > >> - the default pdf() device cannot do CJK with > embedded fonts - and cairo_pdf() is not hooked up to Sweave > yet. I have had a quick look, and it does not look too > complicated, other than the fact that cairo_pdf() is > mutually exclusive with pdf(); and the jpeg/png are new to > 2.13 so it is probably just nobody has gotten round to it. > (and cairo_pdf() also behaves differently with the onefile > option). I guess I am almost saying I might get my hand > dirty or help somebody else who wants to. So it is probably > best to start some discussion. > > > > It is not hard to write your own device functions, > especially in 2.14.0. See rgl::rgl.Sweave for an > example. > > And guess what the example in the Sweave manual uses? > cairo_pdf() ... I don't want a new device - I just wanted cairo_pdf() to be hooked up to Sweave as an alternative to the default pdf(). See my later post with the patch against R trunk and the worked examples. It looks like cairo_pdf() is just using my current fontconfig settings. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel