[BioC] What's the best way to make svg device on Windows available
Wolfgang Huber
whuber at embl.de
Fri Jan 28 17:55:53 CET 2011
Hi
I have a package (arrayQualityMetrics) that works best when the 'svg'
device is available, which afaIu requires that capabilities("cairo") is
TRUE and is not the case on many current Windows installations of R.
I admit I have not paid attention to Windows-related things for a while;
I've done a fair bit of googling on the topic, but am still unsure about
a few things:
- What's the best practice to make the user experience good for Windows
users?
- How to help them to make the 'svg' device available to their R?
- Or should I not use 'svg' if I want the package experience be painless
for Windows people?
- Would it be worthwhile to build and distribute Windows binaries for R
that include libcairo/svg? (Or team up with the people who provide those
on CRAN?)
Best wishes
Wolfgang
Wolfgang Huber
EMBL
http://www.embl.de/research/units/genome_biology/huber
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