[R] HPGL or PCL plotting device? Or otherwise plotting plots

[Thomas Levine]

Hi,

I want to print plots on a Roland DXY-1100 plotter.
How can I do this from R? I think the easiest thing
would be a graphics device for Printer Command
Language or Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language, but
I haven't managed to find any of those.

Thanks

Tom

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Re: [R] HPGL or PCL plotting device? Or otherwise plotting plots

[Thomas Levine]

Oh it was easier than I thought.

  postscript('project-contracts.ps')
  hist(log(projects$n.contracts))
  dev.off()

Then run this from the shell.

  pstoedit -f plot-hpgl project-contracts.ps project-contracts.hpgl

And send it to the plotter.

On 09 Jul 13:10, Thomas Levine wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I want to print plots on a Roland DXY-1100 plotter.
 How can I do this from R? I think the easiest thing
 would be a graphics device for Printer Command
 Language or Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language, but
 I haven't managed to find any of those.
 
 Thanks
 
 Tom

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Re: [R] HPGL or PCL plotting device? Or otherwise plotting plots

[Thomas Levine]

Actually, this doesn't _quite_ do what I want;
I want different R colors (1, 2, 3, c.) to select
different pens in HPGL (SP1, SP2, SP3, c.),
but the HPGL file I get selects only pen 1.

A hacky way to do this would be to generate
a few different postscript files for the different
colors on the plot, create the corresponding HPGL
files, edit the SP command in each of them, and
concatenate them. But maybe there's a better way?

On 09 Jul 13:32, Thomas Levine wrote:
 Oh it was easier than I thought.
 
   postscript('project-contracts.ps')
   hist(log(projects$n.contracts))
   dev.off()
 
 Then run this from the shell.
 
   pstoedit -f plot-hpgl project-contracts.ps project-contracts.hpgl
 
 And send it to the plotter.
 
 On 09 Jul 13:10, Thomas Levine wrote:
  Hi,
  
  I want to print plots on a Roland DXY-1100 plotter.
  How can I do this from R? I think the easiest thing
  would be a graphics device for Printer Command
  Language or Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language, but
  I haven't managed to find any of those.
  
  Thanks
  
  Tom

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