2018-12 MetaPost Three Ways
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 …
2018-11 Variable-Width Bezier Splines in R
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 …
2018-10 Building an mplib Shared Library
This report records the steps that were used to build a shared library for the MetaPost graphics system. Paul Murrell Download
2018-09 Importing General-Purpose Graphics in R
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 …
2018-08 Revisiting Mathematical Equations in R: The ‘dvir’ package
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 …
2018-07 Echoes of the Future
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 …
2018-06 Rasterizing Chromatograms
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 …
2018-05 Selective Raster Graphics
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 …
2018-04 Extreme Makeover: R Graphics Edition
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 …
2018-03 Putting the Macron in Māori: Accented text in R Graphics
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 …