metapost output
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Peng Yu wrote:
Hi, I know the R can make eps output. But metapost sees to be an even better choice for me. I've been using gnuplot for a while, it seems it has excellent support with its metapost latex terminal. So I can insert any latex equation in the figure. Meanwhile, I can make the font in the figure will be consistent with font used in the main text. I searched R help, but I can not find metapost support. I'm wondering it metapost output supported by R. If it is not, will this function be developed in the future?
Please search R-help: this has come up several times. It seems quite a
few people are quite prepared to volunteer others to do this, but not
prepared to contribute to writing such a device.
RSiteSearch("metapaost")
will get you many references. (I am not posting the results, as it seems
they are not permanent URLs.) Note that you can convert xfig output to
metapost, and R has an xfig driver (since someone was generous enough to
actually contribute that).
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595