[R] xfig device

[Ben Bolker]

  I don't know of an xfig driver, although I don't keep up with the latest
versions.  One solution that (sort of) works is to get ahold of pstoedit,
which can convert relatively straightforward PostScript into xfig format
(although you usually have to tweak the positions of text, etc. a little
bit).

  I have only had problems using ghostscript from within xdvi (probably
because of PostScript Level 1/2 incompatibilities); this was briefly
discussed on R-devel a while back.

  [ If we did have an xfig driver, it would be neat to have R
automatically spawn an xfig process and put the graphics right into it
...]

On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Brian Kurotsuchi wrote:

> Hi, I am VERY interested in getting the xfig driver so that I can edit
> graphical output from R.  Searching through the mail archives and reading
> documentation isn't helping.  Is there or isn't there a working driver for
> this purpose.  How can I get it?  I tried looking at the development version
> of the tarballs, but I didn't find anything that looked promising in there.
> 
> Also, does anybody else have problems with using ghostscript on the postscript
> output from R?
> 
> BK
> 
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