[Rd] what is the best way for an external interface to interact with graphics, libraries

[Simon Urbanek]

On Sep 7, 2010, at 3:07 PM, ghostwheel wrote:

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> Simon Urbanek wrote:
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>> I don't know the mechanics of the actual "inserting" in TeXmac but it
>> would be trivial to simply create a copy of the plot as EPS (or whatever
>> is needed) at the time of insertion. See dev.copy2eps() for a function
>> that does exactly that.
>> 
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> 
> Great. It works much better than my recordPlot() hack. But it seems to only
> work for 'screen devices'. I'd like to be able to work remotely without X11.
> Is there any equivalent graphics device that would be copyable with
> dev.copy2eps?  Is there any way to tell R give me whatever you have till now
> in eps? 
> 

No (AFAIR PS devoice does not keep a display list).

However, you can use any other device that uses a display list, e.g. CairoPS from the Cairo package (in fact any of the Cairo devices..).

Cheers,
Simon