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Dear Paul, On Thu, 4 May 2000 10:03:39 +1200
"Paul Murrell" <paul at stat.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
paul> two things: paul> (i) the hershey vector fonts are from the GNU plotutils package - i.e., paul> someone else did all the hard work; we just connected it to R :) I can find that the hershey vector fonts are installed with Ghostview. paul> (ii) since I do not have a Japanese keyboard (and do not know Japanese !) paul> this stuff has not been extensively tested. It will be good to have someone paul> use it so that we can make sure it is working properly. paul> paul> You should only require the standard R package. paul> paul> Apologies if these are silly questions, but just in case ... paul> (i) did you type help(Hershey) from the R command-line ? Yes. paul> (ii) do you have the help installed ? e.g., what do you get paul> if you type help(sum) ? Yes, the help system arw working. the command "help(text)" returns a correct response. But "help(Japanese)" paul> paul> Hershey fonts are vector fonts (i.e., the characters are defined paul> by a set of points; the characters can be drawn by just joining paul> the points by straight lines). The Hershey character definitions paul> are included in the standard R distribution. paul> paul> paul paul> paul> paul> paul> ---------------------------------------------------------- Shigeru Mase <mase at is.titech.ac.jp> Dept. Math. and Comp. Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oh-Okayama 2-12-1, Meguroku, Tokyo, 152-8552, Japan ---------------------------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._