To be honest, I don't know much about SVG files so we might have to wait for
someone more knowledgeable to come along, but do you get the same problem
using the regular svg() command?
Michael
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Fong Chun Chan <fongchunc...@gmail.com>wrote:
> For convenience on my end since the plot was generated on a server and
> having to actually grab the file would have required a ftp or scp. A
> screenshot would have gotten the point across as I just wanted to show what
> it the problem looks like. If necessary, I can send the actual svg if that
> helps in debugging in anyway.
>
> I can produce a graph on my local machine, but on the server the same code
> you used produces that exact same problem I mentioned. It doesn't appear to
> be any argument issue in CairoSVG or hist() itself, but rather some inherent
> R parameter value which differs between the server and my own and your
> machine. Anyone have any ideas what that might be?
>
> Fong
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 3:31 PM, R. Michael Weylandt <
> michael.weyla...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Perhaps the problem could be solved by playing with the pointsize argument
>> to CairoSVG or the various plotting parameters of hist().
>>
>> More generally, this code:
>>
>> R> library(CairoSVG)
>> R> CairoSVG()
>> R> hist(rpois(500,3))
>> R> dev.off()
>>
>> produced an entirely acceptable SVG image on my computer so I can't
>> replicate the problem...
>>
>> As a general life question, why in a question about SVG files would you
>> send us a PNG screenshot rather than the SVG itself? Can SVG's not be sent
>> over the mailing list?
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Fong Chun Chan <fongchunc...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've been trying to use SVG in R using the function svg, but all my my
>>> graphics end up with the text being very small to be point you can't even
>>> see them. I've attached a screenshot of what the output for a histogram
>>> looks like. Here is my code:
>>>
>>> CairoSVG('file/location')
>>> hist(....)
>>> dev.off()
>>>
>>> Am I missing something here? Thanks,
>>>
>>> Fong
>>>
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