[R] metapost output

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Peng Yu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I know the R can make eps output. But metapost sees to be an even
> better choice for me. I've been using gnuplot for a while, it seems it
> has excellent support with its metapost latex terminal. So I can
> insert any latex equation in the figure. Meanwhile, I can make the
> font in the figure will be consistent with font used in the main text.
>
> I searched R help, but I can not find metapost support.
>
> I'm wondering it metapost output supported by R. If it is not, will
> this function be developed in the future?

Please search R-help: this has come up several times.  It seems quite a 
few people are quite prepared to volunteer others to do this, but not 
prepared to contribute to writing such a device.

RSiteSearch("metapaost")

will get you many references.  (I am not posting the results, as it seems 
they are not permanent URLs.)  Note that you can convert xfig output to 
metapost, and R has an xfig driver (since someone was generous enough to 
actually contribute that).

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