[R] graphic output file format

[erick at nospammail.net]

I received the following communication from the package maintainer
 for GDD (Simon Urbanek) when I was having compile problems on linux...

> > gd.x86_64                                2.0.28-4.4E.1          
> > installed       Matched from:
>
> ^^
>  +--- your GD is too old. You'll need at least gd-2.0.29 (see README  
> in GDD) and 2.0.33 is recommended.

> You may want to try Cairo (see the nightly page) instead of GDD,  
> because cairographics has some features that GD is lacking and it is  
> actively maintained (unfortunately libgd is pretty much dead).
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon 

Disclaimer: I actually cannot get the Cairo to work either!
Eric



On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:00:08 +0200, "Stefan Grosse"
<stefan.grosse at uni-erfurt.de> said:
> Please mail always also to the list, since it may be that there is
> someone who could reply better and/or faster.

[Case in point.]
> 
> Especially in this case since I am only experienced in M$ Windows and
> Linux so I am unable to guess whats wrong with OSX. does not even the
> postscript device work? With postscript I get the best quality for
> printing.
> 
> e.g.:
> postscript("test.eps", width = 8.0, height = 6.0, horizontal = FALSE,
> onefile =FALSE, paper = "special")
> curve(x^2)
> dev.off()
> 
> 
> Conan Phelan schrieb:
> > Thanks for the feedback and link Stefan,
> >
> > Perhaps if I provide a little more background. (Pls
> > forgive both my ignorance and my long windedness.)
> >
> >  I am on Mac OSX and am only able to load the Quartz
> > graphic device (is that normal?). From quartz, I've
> > only been able to generate pdf files, which do not
> > match the quartz display to my satisfaction. I've been
> > attempting to find a way to generate other output
> > files for comparison. (I've managed to generate a bmp
> > file that looked awful, after acquiring Gostscript). 
> >
> > Anyway, I figure R must able to produce high quality
> > graphic outputs, so I'm trying different things. To
> > this end I was hoping that the GDD package would allow
> > me to load the x11 module but it seems to be a no-go
> > (is there some system requirement I'm missing?).
> >
> > Conan
> >
> >
> 
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