[R] Windows metafiles in Linux

[Liaw, Andy]

Just want to express MHO that the graphics produced by wmf.graph() in Splus
6 for Linux is only of barely acceptable quality (e.g., hallow circles were
drawn too thick, making the plot look rather awkward).

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian D Ripley [mailto:ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 10:49 AM
To: Victor Moreno
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: Re: [R] Windows metafiles in Linux


On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Victor Moreno wrote:

> Can windows metafiles be created on Linux version of R?
> Is this device windows-dependent?

No, yes.

It's a frequently asked-for addition on Linux, but no one has managed to
contribute code to do it.  There's a world of difference between calling
Windows API functions and fathoming out how to write a file in an
ill-documented format.

BTW, S-PLUS 6 for Linux *can* do this, which reduces the motivation to
solve this in R for some of us.

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