On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Gábor Csárdi <csa...@rmki.kfki.hu> wrote:
> Rainer, > > if you are willing to patch the R source, then a solution might be the > R connection patch, see > http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=developers:r_connections_api > It is a bit outdated, but with a little work I could use it for R > 2.9.2 and works fine. > Thanks - I will look into it and give feedback as soon as I have done. Cheers, Rainer > > Best, > Gabor > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Martin Renner < > > martin.ren...@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> wrote: > > > >> try pdftk. Not quite on the fly but should do the trick. (I saw this on > >> this list a little while ago) > >> > > > > pdftk compresses the pdf internally - it is still a pdf, can be opened as > a > > pdf, and is not an externally compressed pdf (pdf in an archive). > > Below is the approach which I am using, but as stated earlier, if > somebody > > could provide a way of only doing dev.off() whhich then calls pdfComp() > with > > the filename, I would be glad to know. Otherwise. > > > > Rainer > > > > > >> > >> pdfComp <- function (pdfname){ > >> if (0){ > >> x <- tempfile() > >> system (paste ("mv", pdfname, x)) > >> system (paste ("pdftk", x, "output", pdfname, "compress")) > >> unlink (x) > >> } > >> } > >> > >> pdf ("test.pdf") > >> plot (1:10) > >> dev.off() > >> pdfComp ("test.pdf") > >> > >> > >> On 30 Sep 2009, at 00:25 , Rainer M Krug wrote: > >> > >> 2009/9/30 Daniele Amberti <daniele.ambe...@ors.it> > >>> > >>> I have not found an easy way to compress a file on filesystem. > >>>> Especially I'd like to compress a pdf from pdf() function/device. Is > it > >>>> possible to compress It on the flight? > >>>> I'd like to do something like: > >>>> pdf(gzipconnection()) > >>>> dev.off() > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> I guess this boils down to a question I asked some time ago > concerning > >>> getting the filename of a pdf() device, as I wanted to create a > compressed > >>> pdf from the uncompressed pdf created by R (not "zipping" the pdf). > >>> It does not seem to be possible, at least I did not get any response > which > >>> I > >>> could use to implement my idea (create my dev.off(), which calls > dev.off() > >>> and afterwards compresses the pdf by using the file name). > >>> > >>> If you find a solution, please let me know. > >>> > >>> Cheers, > >>> > >>> Rainer > >>> > >>> If It is not possible, how can I create a gzip with the pdf? > >>> > >>>> > >>>> Thanks > >>>> Daniele A. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> ________________________________ > >>>> ORS Srl > >>>> > >>>> Via Agostino Morando 1/3 12060 Roddi (Cn) - Italy > >>>> Tel. +39 0173 620211 > >>>> Fax. +39 0173 620299 / +39 0173 433111 > >>>> Web Site www.ors.it > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>>> Qualsiasi utilizzo non autorizzato del presente messaggio e dei suoi > >>>> allegati ? vietato e potrebbe costituire reato. > >>>> Se lei avesse ricevuto erroneamente questo messaggio, Le saremmo grati > se > >>>> provvedesse alla distruzione dello stesso > >>>> e degli eventuali allegati. > >>>> Opinioni, conclusioni o altre informazioni riportate nella e-mail, che > >>>> non > >>>> siano relative alle attivit? e/o > >>>> alla missione aziendale di O.R.S. 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(Germany) > > > > Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology > > Natural Sciences Building > > Office Suite 2039 > > Stellenbosch University > > Main Campus, Merriman Avenue > > Stellenbosch > > South Africa > > > > Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 > > Fax: +27 - (0)86 516 2782 > > Fax: +49 - (0)721 151 334 888 > > email: rai...@krugs.de > > > > Skype: RMkrug > > Google: r.m.k...@gmail.com > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > > > > -- > Gabor Csardi <gabor.csa...@unil.ch> UNIL DGM > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. 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