[R] Windows metafiles in Linux

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

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

> 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.

Anyone interested in trying to tackle this might take off from the
xfig driver and the specs at

http://www.wotsit.org/download.asp?f=wmf

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