Re: [R] Compress (gzip) a pdf device

2009-10-02 Thread Rainer M Krug
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

Re: [R] Compress (gzip) a pdf device

2009-10-02 Thread Gábor Csárdi
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be the R connection patch, see http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=developers:r_connections_api It is a bit outdated, but with a little work I could use it for R 2.9.2 and works fine. Best, Gabor On Fri, Oct 2, 2009

Re: [R] Compress (gzip) a pdf device

2009-10-02 Thread Rainer M Krug
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be the R connection patch, see http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=developers:r_connections_api It is a bit outdated, but with a little

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2009-10-01 Thread Daniele Amberti
). Daniele From: Rainer M Krug [mailto:r.m.k...@gmail.com] Sent: 30 September 2009 10:26 To: Daniele Amberti Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Compress (gzip) a pdf device - [ ] Message is from an unknown sender 2009/9/30 Daniele Amberti daniele.ambe...@ors.itmailto:daniele.ambe...@ors.it I

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2009-10-01 Thread Ista Zahn
(without using an external executable). Daniele From: Rainer M Krug [mailto:r.m.k...@gmail.com] Sent: 30 September 2009 10:26 To: Daniele Amberti Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Compress (gzip) a pdf device - [ ] Message is from an unknown sender 2009/9/30 Daniele Amberti

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2009-10-01 Thread Daniele Amberti
[mailto:istaz...@gmail.com] Sent: 01 October 2009 17:11 To: Daniele Amberti Cc: r-help@r-project.org; Rainer M Krug Subject: Re: [R] Compress (gzip) a pdf device - [ ] Message is from an unknown sender I guess I don't understand what your're trying to do. gzip-ing a file from within R is easy enough: pdf

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2009-10-01 Thread Duncan Temple Lang
Message- From: Ista Zahn [mailto:istaz...@gmail.com] Sent: 01 October 2009 17:11 To: Daniele Amberti Cc: r-help@r-project.org; Rainer M Krug Subject: Re: [R] Compress (gzip) a pdf device - [ ] Message is from an unknown sender I guess I don't understand what your're trying to do. gzip

Re: [R] Compress (gzip) a pdf device

2009-10-01 Thread Martin Renner
try pdftk. Not quite on the fly but should do the trick. (I saw this on this list a little while ago) pdfComp - function (pdfname){ if (0){ x - tempfile() system (paste (mv, pdfname, x)) system (paste (pdftk, x, output, pdfname, compress)) unlink (x) } } pdf (test.pdf)

[R] Compress (gzip) a pdf device

2009-09-30 Thread Daniele Amberti
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() If It is not possible, how can I create a gzip with the

Re: [R] Compress (gzip) a pdf device

2009-09-30 Thread Rainer M Krug
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