[R-SIG-Mac] Sweave, LaTeX, and ... quartz?

[Simon Urbanek]

On May 15, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I was wondering how others generate on-screen graphics and graphics
> files when they want to use Sweave to generate Latex documents.
>
> I am using Aquamacs
> ( GNU Emacs 22.0.97.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0, Carbon Version
> 1.6.0)  of 2007-04-15 on rodrigues.inf.ed.ac.uk - Aquamacs
> Distribution 1.0rc3 )
>
> I have been using x11(), but I would prefer to use a quartz device,
> simply because the on-screen quality is much better, and I imagine
> there are other advantages as well?
>
> Is CarbonEL still recommended? An older hack seems unavailable.
>> install.packages("CarbonEL",,"http://rforge.net/")
> Warning message:
> package 'CarbonEL' is not available
>

install.packages("CarbonEL",,"http://rforge.net/",type='source')

should work regardless of the R version...

Cheers,
Simon