[R] Problem with colormodel in pdf driver

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Luis Torgo wrote:

> Greg Snow wrote:
>> You may want to consider a dotchart instead of a barplot.  Then you can 
>> distinguish between groups by using symbols, grouping, and labels rather 
>> than depending on colors/shades of grey.
>>
>> 
> Thanks Greg. The only problem is that I was trying to illustrate the use of 
> barplot() ...
>
> I guess for now I can always use the pdf() driver with the default RGB 
> colormodel and then use command line tools (e.g. ImageMagick) to convert the 
> resulting graphs to grayscale...

You won't be able to convert PDF to PDF with ImageMagick (possible 
with a helper).

> Thanks all for the help.

Or update your R, as the posting guide suggested.  It works in 
R-patched and R-devel.

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