xfig {grDevices}R Documentation

XFig Graphics Device

Description

xfig starts the graphics device driver for producing XFig (version 3.2) graphics.

It was deprecated in R 4.4.0: consider using an SVG device for editable graphics.

The auxiliary function ps.options can be used to set and view (if called without arguments) default values for the arguments to xfig and postscript.

Usage

xfig(file = if(onefile) "Rplots.fig" else "Rplot%03d.fig",
     onefile = FALSE, encoding = "none",
     paper = "default", horizontal = TRUE,
     width = 0, height = 0, family = "Helvetica",
     pointsize = 12, bg = "transparent", fg = "black",
     pagecentre = TRUE, defaultfont = FALSE, textspecial = FALSE)

Arguments

file

a character string giving the file path. For use with onefile = FALSE, give a C integer format such as "Rplot%03d.fig" (the default in that case).

See section ‘File specifications’ in the help for pdf for further details.

onefile

logical: if true allow multiple figures in one file. If false, assume only one page per file and generate a file number containing the page number.

encoding

The encoding in which to write text strings. The default is not to re-encode. This can be any encoding recognized by iconv: in a Western UTF-8 locale you probably want to select an 8-bit encoding such as latin1, and in an East Asian locale an EUC encoding. If re-encoding fails, the text strings will be written in the current encoding with a warning.

paper

the size of paper region. The choices are "A4", "Letter" and "Legal" (and these can be lowercase). A further choice is "default", which is the default. If this is selected, the paper size is taken from the option "papersize" if that is set to a non-empty value, otherwise "A4".

horizontal

the orientation of the printed image, a logical. Defaults to true, that is landscape orientation.

width, height

the width and height of the graphics region in inches. The default is to use the entire page less a 0.5 inch overall margin in each direction. (See postscript for further details.)

family

the font family to be used. This must be one of "AvantGarde", "Bookman", "Courier", "Helvetica" (the default), "Helvetica-Narrow", "NewCenturySchoolbook", "Palatino" or "Times". Any other value is replaced by "Helvetica", with a warning.

pointsize

the default point size to be used.

bg

the initial background color to be used.

fg

the initial foreground color to be used.

pagecentre

logical: should the device region be centred on the page?

defaultfont

logical: should the device use XFig's default font?

textspecial

logical: should the device set the textspecial flag for all text elements? This is useful when generating pstex from XFig figures.

Details

Although xfig can produce multiple plots in one file, the XFig format does not say how to separate or view them. So onefile = FALSE is the default.

The file argument is interpreted as a C integer format as used by sprintf, with integer argument the page number. The default gives files ‘Rplot001.fig’, ..., ‘Rplot999.fig’, ‘Rplot1000.fig’, ....

Line widths as controlled by par(lwd =) are in multiples of 5/6*1/72 inch. Multiples less than 1 are allowed. pch = "." with cex = 1 corresponds to a square of side 1/72 inch.

Windows users could make use of WinFIG (http://winfig.com/, shareware).

Conventions

This section describes the implementation of the conventions for graphics devices set out in the ‘R Internals’ manual.

Note

Only some line textures (0 <= lty < 4) are used. Eventually this may be partially remedied, but the XFig file format does not allow as general line textures as the R model. Unimplemented line textures are displayed as dash-double-dotted.

There is a limit of 512 colours (plus white and black) per file.

Author(s)

Brian Ripley. Support for defaultFont and textSpecial contributed by Sebastian Fischmeister.

See Also

Devices, postscript, ps.options.


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