[R] win.metafile and Linux

[(Ted Harding)]

Hi Folks,

I see that people have been discussing the win.metafile device
on the list since before 2000.

Yet I have never seen this on a Linux distribution of R.

Is this because the device works by making calls (GPL calls of
course!) to a proprietary Windows library?

In that case I can understand that it would be far from kosher to
implement it on Linux. But I'd like confirmation.

I must say that being able to produce Windows metafiles on Linux
would help to bridge the gap between Linux and Windows: often one
needs to produce a graphic which will be imported into a Windows
application, but while PNG and the like are quite nice they don't
have the merit of being a vector format, and don't scale well.

Thanks,
Ted.


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