[R] pictex driver and bargraph shading

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Jain, Rahul (Rahul) wrote:

>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Prof Brian Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 3:16 PM
> > To: Jain, Rahul (Rahul)
> > Cc: 'r-help at lists.r-project.org'
> > Subject: Re: [R] pictex driver and bargraph shading
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Jain, Rahul (Rahul) wrote:
> >
> > > The postscript driver won't do, since I'm trying to embed
> > this in a LaTeX
> > > document which I'll use pdflatex on and \includegraphics
> > for pdftex doesn't
> > > support postscript. ps2pdf just rasterizes the ps, so it
> > looks terrible.
> >
> > What ps2pdf is that?  It shouldn't in a recent ghostscript.
>
> I figured out that the problem was that the font I chose wasn't a standard
> pdf font. Changing it to helvetica makes a beautiful .pdf :)
>
> > > I'm willing to do this another way, I just don't want to
> > use rasterized
> > > plots in my document.
> >
> > What's wrong with using the pdf() driver if you want pdf?
>
> I just realized that debian woody (testing) doesn't have a recent R, so I
> compiled the one in unstable, and after removing the test phase (many of the
> tests reported failure even though they actually succeeded). But the pdf
> driver makes a blank page...

Why not just compile R-1.3.0?  pdf() was introduced in that version, and
it definitely works.

It's hard for the rest of us to have to follow the mysteries of an OS
packager we do not use.  The standard R advice is to use the latest
released version (or r-patched), and not to expect help with obselete
versions.  And giving versions would have been rather useful....

-- 
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 272860 (secr)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK                Fax:  +44 1865 272595

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
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
_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._