[Rd] beta symbol cut off in y axis label using jpeg/png/tiff

2008-10-17 Thread Stephen Weigand
I am having trouble showing the Greek symbol "beta" correctly in the y-axis label of bitmap plots. Specifically, on my system the top of the "beta" symbol is cut off using the following example: file.jpg <- paste(tempfile(), ".jpg", sep = "") jpeg(file.jpg, h = 3, w = 3, units = "in", res = 300,

Re: [Rd] RFC: Kerning, postscript() and pdf()

2008-10-17 Thread Mark Difford
A huge thank you from me, too. Greg has said what should be said. Every day I look at my PS and PDF output, think through the chain of effort involved, from building the blocks to the packages that coordinate them, and say WOW! R graphics just got better, with some fine decision making. Reg

[Rd] IFCS 2009; deadline: November 3, 2008

2008-10-17 Thread Uwe Ligges
Hi [and apologies for misusing the list for some statistical software related conference ads], The IFCS 2009 (International Federation of Classification Societies) Conference takes place in Dresden Germany: March 13-18, 2009. The conference and in particular its section on `Data Analysis Sof

Re: [Rd] as.list() for function:s

2008-10-17 Thread Martin Maechler
> "HenrikB" == Henrik Bengtsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:51:40 -0700 writes: HenrikB> Hi, a quick comment. I just notice that as.list() deals with HenrikB> function:s the old way inside the "default" function, cf. >> as.list.default HenrikB> functi

Re: [Rd] RFC: Kerning, postscript() and pdf()

2008-10-17 Thread Bálint Czúcz
Dear Prof Ripley, FWIW, kerning problems seem to affect even European character sets, e.g.: > pdf(); plot(0,main="árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép"); dev.off() in a clean session produces some misaligned characters in the resulting Rplots.pdf. [--> note the misplacements after the characters ő and ű (Hung

Re: [Rd] Minor feature request: Let 'R CMD co*nfig' tell me where the INCLDIR is

2008-10-17 Thread Martin Maechler
> "DE" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:45:40 -0500 writes: DE> On Debian / Ubuntu / ... we have [1] DE> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> R CMD config --cppflags DE> -I/usr/share/R/include DE> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> Actually, on Ubuntu 8.04 (64-