[R] postscript preview

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Prof Brian D Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> The only vector graphics formats supported by R on Linux are PostScript and
> XFig to my knowledge.  We do hope to add PDF and WMF one day but the latter
> in particular is not going to be easy due to lack of documentation (and
> lack of existing convertors).

I think you've said it before, but what are the potential advantages of
a direct PDF driver over postscript + epstopdf? (Except being one step
less)

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