[R] PostScript File Dimensions

[David Winsemius]

You may be new to R but that does not mean you should stay "new" to  
the help pages. It looks as though postscript() is ignoring your  
setEPS efforts,,, with perfectly legitimate reason since that is not a  
defined parameter for that function. It is a separate function. What  
happens when you use the height= and width= parameters that the  
postscript help page defines for you? That "worked" for me (on a Mac  
OS X 10.5.5/ R2.8.0-64bit GUI device). Or you could try executing  
setEPS before your postscript call.

Further questions, as is always the case with output sorts of  
questions, should include your systemInfo. This is an example in the  
help page with an added plot. to make the otherwise blank 4 x 3 eps  
file look more interesting:

 > postscript("cm_test.eps", width = 4.0, height = 3.0,
+            horizontal = FALSE, onefile = FALSE, paper = "special",
+            family = "ComputerModern", encoding = "TeXtext.enc")
 > plot(1:10,10:1)
 > dev.off()

-- 
David Winsemius
Heritage Labs




On Nov 15, 2008, at 9:00 AM, Rodrigo Aluizio wrote:

> Hi List, here I go again.
>
> Well I need to save plotted objects as .eps using the postscript()  
> function,
> well I can do that but all resulting object are perfect squared  
> dimensions
> (x = y). I need a rectangular output something like x = 2y  
> dimension. Is it
> possible? The I’m new to R and postscript image format!
>
>
>
> I’m doing this…
>
>
>
> postscript('ClusterWardBC.eps',setEPS(),bg='white')
>
> plot(WardBC,which.plots=2,main='Living Fauna')
>
> dev.off()
>
>
>
> and I got the square image
>
>
>
> I tried this to solve
>
>
>
> postscript 
> ('ClusterWardBC.eps',setEPS(width=600,height=300),bg='white')
>
> plot(WardBC,which.plots=2,main='Living Fauna')
>
> dev.off()
>
>
>
> and I got and output but any software or printer can handle it. So  
> it’s
> useless.
>
>
>
> Any ideas?!
>
>
>
> Ps.: The plotted object is a cluster tree, but it also occurs with  
> other
> plots I’ve done.
>
>
>
> Thank you for the attention.
>
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