[R] pictex graphics device and color

[Paul Murrell]

Hi


Steve.Rowley at sanofi-aventis.com wrote:
> Is the pictex graphics device known not to support color?
> 
> In R 2.0.1 Patched (2004-11-17), it produced very pretty output:
> 
> ## pictex(file = "modern-metatheonomy.tex", bg = "transparent");
> ## plotData(data);
> ## dev.off()
> 
> ... but it appears to have ignored all color information.


Unfortunately, the source code for the pictex driver contains no 
handling of colour.

Not sure how hard it would be to add; 
https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/grDevices/src/devPicTeX.c
is the file to look at if you're interested.

Paul
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