Sweave Cairo driver? - R-help

Wed, Apr 6, 2011 1:31 PM #

Dear all
I would like to use Sweave with the Cairo() graphics device instead of
pdf(), since the former supports Unicode, allows for easier font
selection out of a greater range of available fonts, and automatically
embeds fonts into the resulting PDF.

Following this older discussion [1], has anyone come up with an Sweave
driver that uses the Cairo graphics device? Thank you
Liviu

[1] http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e12/help/10/10/0986.html

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Brian Ripley

Wed, Apr 6, 2011 9:39 PM #

This is simple in 2.13.0 RC, which allows you to add graphics devices 
for Sweave.

On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Liviu Andronic wrote:

As does cairo_pdf(), builtin to R and more reliable in my experience.

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Liviu Andronic

Wed, Apr 6, 2011 10:21 PM #

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

Interesting. Which help files should I look into?

Thank you, I didn't know that, and it looks nice, indeed. Regards
Liviu

Liviu Andronic

Wed, Apr 6, 2011 10:47 PM #

Dear Brian

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:39 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

I've looked into the help pages and searched the lists, but could only
find out that "The default font family is Helvetica."

How could I use a different  font with cairo_pdf? In Cairo (the R
package), there is a ?CairoFontMatch and ?CairoFonts. Are there
equivalents for cairo_pdf?

Thank you
Liviu