[R] Make plots with GNUplot. Have anyone tried that?

[Gabor Csardi]

I believe that R can export all formats that GNUplot can produce,
so i don't really see why you want to use GNUplot if you don't know it. 
If you still want to then read ?write.table, that can export your data
into a spreadsheet-like ascii format which can be used from GNUplot 
easily.

Btw, comparing the graphics capabilities of GNUplot and R, it is 
something like a three-wheel bicycle and a spaceship. Guess 
which is which.

Gabor

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:12:50PM +0100, Louise Hoffman wrote:
> [snip]
> >  Seriously. Be specific if you have a problem. (read the posting guide). R can
> >  also plot. If you don't like R's plots (which I could not understand) you can
> >  export data and import them to gnuplot. So what?
> 
> Okay, my post was not very good.
> 
> The reason (I think) I need GNUplot, is that I would like to include
> the plots from R in a Latex report, where I would like to have all the
> text and equations in the plots with the same font as used in Latex.
> 
> So when I read about opening and closing "dev" for making a pdf I
> figured that the plots that R produces are like the once Matlab makes;
> shows what they ought to, nothing more, nothing less.
> 
> So I was wondering if anyone know of an GNUplot friendly format and
> the code that would produce that text file.
> 
> I am new to both R and GNUplot, so I am pure ears if someone knows how
> to make such plots in R.
> 
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