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2 messages · Kyle Matoba, Brian Ripley

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The example at ?pictex does not work (the driver apparently uses
'rotatebox') for me as stated.  It did compile after including the
graphicsx package.  A MWE is at the help page for pictex.  I tried to
get in touch with Valerio but his email bounced.  Probably we want to
add a \usepackage{graphicsx} to the help page and try to track down
Valerio.

Cheers,

Kyle


This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009)
R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.10.1
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Thank you for the comments.  That driver dates from 1997 or so, and I 
believe we failed to contact the author several years ago, but a later 
email address is in the THANKS file.

It is really present for historical reasons, and other things change 
-- so I have added LaTeX package graphics (although graphicx will do, 
graphics suffices) and removed the Plain TeX example.

The tikzDevice in the package of that name might be a suitable 
replacement.
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Kyle Matoba wrote: