Thanks for this! I had a feeling that was the case; the R graphics functions are so clearly designed for use with pen plotters that I was puzzled by the absense of an HPGL device.
And now I've found a list of some other interesting devices on page 71 of Modern Applied Statistics with S. This Wikipedia article says that S source code was released in 1981. (I never knew!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_%28programming_language%29 So I'm going to look for publications related to S from 1981. Say something if you have any tips for my search. On 17 Aug 15:11, Roger Koenker wrote: > In ancient times, ie circa 1981, the S language certainly supported HP pen > plotters > so there should be code somewhere that could be resuscitated, he said naively. > > url: www.econ.uiuc.edu/~roger Roger Koenker > email rkoen...@uiuc.edu Department of Economics > vox: 217-333-4558 University of Illinois > fax: 217-244-6678 Urbana, IL 61801 > On Aug 17, 2014, at 2:58 PM, Thomas Levine <_...@thomaslevine.com> wrote: > > > I want to make my own graphics device am thus looking for > > documentation about graphics devices. > > > > The only thing I've found so far is these directions for > > making graphics devices with the RGraphicsDevice package. > > http://www.omegahat.org/RGraphicsDevice/ > > > > Could someone point me to any other resources? Or just > > some documentation about how to edit base R? If I don't > > get anything, I'm just going to stare at the grDevices > > section of the R source code (src/library/grDevices/src) > > until I figure out how it works. > > > > In case you're curious, I want to make a graphics device > > that saves the graph in Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPGL > > > > Thanks > > > > Tom > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.