Hi
Thomas Steiner wrote: > Hi Greg and Paul, > > I tried several things, but I did not succeed: > > * I could not find the library(EBImage) on CRAN in Austria to open an > png image in R. > > * I could not import the image via pixmap (read.pnm) as described on > http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:graphics-misc:translucency > because my GIMP cannot write pnm format. > > * I could not manage use the 'grImport' package to trace the svg: >> readPicture("Aries.svg") > Fehler in readPicture("Aries.svg") : > Version mismatch: RGML file needs to be recreated with PostScriptTrace() Yep, you need to convert to PostScript (ImageMagick or InkScape ought to do it) before you can import it. See http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/R/grImport/import.pdf for a thorough description of how the package works. Paul > * I gave up modifiying the svg code from wikipedia to make it an R > array (structure) as you greg described it above. > > If you have any hint for me please let me know. I am willing to > contribute something to TeachingDemos (although I am not sure if this > is not a license problem as I trace the (public domain) images from > wikimedia. > > Otherwise I am happy with the Hershey fonts so far. > Thomas -- Dr Paul Murrell Department of Statistics The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland New Zealand 64 9 3737599 x85392 p...@stat.auckland.ac.nz http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/ ______________________________________________ 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.
