[R] Source code for R graphics devices

(Ted Harding) Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk
Mon Jul 10 22:49:17 CEST 2006


On 10-Jul-06 Ted Harding wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm trying to locate the source code for a (typical)
> R graphics device, in order to study how it's done.
> 
> [...]
> 
> When, in R, I type "xfig" to see the R code, I get the
> line
> 
>   .Internal(XFig(file, old$paper, old$family, old$bg, old$fg,
>       old$width, old$height, old$horizontal, old$pointsize, 
>       old$onefile, old$pagecentre))
> 
> so I tried to locate the code for the Internal function "Xfig".
> 
> I can't seem to find it!

Many thanks to Duncan and Chuck for help and advice. Which also
brought home to me that my problem was that I can't read!

Grepping for "Xfig" didn't work. Grepping for "XFig" would have
worked!

Thanks, and best wishes,
Ted.

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