[R] Adding a title to a postscript file

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Patrick Connolly wrote:

> I create lots of postscript files which I view with ghostview.  The
> beginning of the files all begin something like
>
> %!PS-Adobe-3.0
> %%DocumentNeededResources: font Helvetica
> %%+ font Helvetica-Bold
> %%+ font Helvetica-Oblique
> %%+ font Helvetica-BoldOblique
> %%+ font Symbol
> %%DocumentMedia: a4 595 841 0 () ()
> %%Title: R Graphics Output
> %%Creator: R Software
>
>
> The consequence is that in ghostview, they are all titled
> 'R Graphics Output'.
>
> Is it possible to add a title at the time the file is created (say,
> defaulting to the name of the file) so that it's visible from within
> ghostview?

Only by patching R.  I'll add this to R-devel.

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