Making my own graphics device
Thanks for this! I had a feeling that was the case; the R graphics functions are so clearly designed for use with pen plotters that I was puzzled by the absense of an HPGL device. And now I've found a list of some other interesting devices on page 71 of Modern Applied Statistics with S. This Wikipedia article says that S source code was released in 1981. (I never knew!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_%28programming_language%29 So I'm going to look for publications related to S from 1981. Say something if you have any tips for my search.
On 17 Aug 15:11, Roger Koenker wrote:
In ancient times, ie circa 1981, the S language certainly supported HP pen plotters so there should be code somewhere that could be resuscitated, he said naively. url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker email rkoenker at uiuc.edu Department of Economics vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois fax: 217-244-6678 Urbana, IL 61801 On Aug 17, 2014, at 2:58 PM, Thomas Levine <_ at thomaslevine.com> wrote:
I want to make my own graphics device am thus looking for documentation about graphics devices. The only thing I've found so far is these directions for making graphics devices with the RGraphicsDevice package. http://www.omegahat.org/RGraphicsDevice/ Could someone point me to any other resources? Or just some documentation about how to edit base R? If I don't get anything, I'm just going to stare at the grDevices section of the R source code (src/library/grDevices/src) until I figure out how it works. In case you're curious, I want to make a graphics device that saves the graph in Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPGL Thanks Tom
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