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. Jeff -- http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/JeffreyHorner ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
