This report describes three different approaches to communicating between R and MetaPost: importing the PostScript output from MetaPost with the ‘grImport’ package; calling the mpost ... [Read more...]

This report describes support for a new type of variable-width line in the ‘vwline’ package for R that is based on Bezier curves. There is ... [Read more...]

This report discusses some problems that can arise when attempting to import PostScript images into R, when the PostScript image contains coordinate transformations that skew ... [Read more...]

This report describes an R package called ‘dvir’ that aims to use TeX as a layout engine, but performs all rendering within R. The package ... [Read more...]

This report discusses ways to combine graphics output from the ‘graphics’ package and the ‘grid’ package in R and introduces a new function echoGrob in ... [Read more...]

This report describes an application of the ‘rasterize’ package for R. We rasterize (just) the line segments of two chromatograms in order to render one ... [Read more...]

This report explores ways to render specific components of an R plot in raster format, when the overall format of the plot is vector. For ... [Read more...]

This report describes a complex R graphics customisation example using functions from the ‘grid’ and ‘gridGraphics’ packages and introduces two new functions in ‘grid’: deviceLoc ... [Read more...]

This report describes different methods for correctly rendering macrons in Māori text within R plots. The topics covered will also have relevance to rendering other special characters in R graphics and possibly to rendering macrons in other software. ... [Read more...]

This report describes the development of a colour list and colour metric for the ‘roloc’ package that is based on the ISCC-NBS System of Color Designation. Paul Murrell Download [Read more...]

This report introduces the ‘roloc’ package for R, which provides functions for converting colour specifications into colour names. Paul Murrell Download [Read more...]

This report describes changes in version 1.6-0 of the ‘gridSVG’ package for R. The most important result of these changes is that ‘gridSVG’ is now much faster at generating SVG files (in situations where it used to be painfully slow). Paul Murrell Download [Read more...]

This document describes the ‘vwline’ package, which provides an R interface for drawing variable-width curves. The package provides functions to draw line segments through a set of locations, or a smooth curve relative to a set of control points, with the width of the line allowed to vary along the ... [Read more...]

This document describes a proof-of-concept for producing R demonstration videos in a fully-automated manner. The “script” for the video consists of a text file containing code chunks paired with text commentary. The video is produced by running the code while recording a screen capture, using text-to-speech software to record audio ... [Read more...]

This document describes a proof-of-concept for producing R demonstration videos in a fully-automated manner. The “script” for the video consists of a text file containing code chunks paired with text commentary. The video is produced by running the code while … Continue reading → [Read more...]

This report describes changes in version 0.4 of the ‘DOM’ package for R. The main change in this version is the addition of new functions that allow control over the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) content of a web page. This … Continue reading → [Read more...]

This report describes changes in version 0.4 of the ‘DOM’ package for R. The main change in this version is the addition of new functions that allow control over the Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) content of a web page. This provides programmatic control over the styling of HTML and SVG content ... [Read more...]

This report describes changes in version 0.3 of the ‘DOM’ package for R. This version represents a major refactoring of the package code, including its user-facing API. These changes were made in order to facilitate the addition of new features … Continue reading → [Read more...]

This report describes changes in version 0.3 of the ‘DOM’ package for R. This version represents a major refactoring of the package code, including its user-facing API. These changes were made in order to facilitate the addition of new features to the package, which in this version include: a new way ... [Read more...]

This report describes changes in version 0.2 of the ‘DOM’ package for R. Version 0.1 of ‘DOM’ allowed HTML content to be added to a web page (or removed or modified); version 0.2 adds the ability to append SVG content to a web page. Paul Murrell Download [Read more...]