From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Fri Feb 19 09:55:29 2010
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:55:29 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] pictex
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Thank you for the comments.  That driver dates from 1997 or so, and I 
believe we failed to contact the author several years ago, but a later 
email address is in the THANKS file.

It is really present for historical reasons, and other things change 
-- so I have added LaTeX package graphics (although graphicx will do, 
graphics suffices) and removed the Plain TeX example.

The tikzDevice in the package of that name might be a suitable 
replacement.

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Kyle Matoba wrote:

> The example at ?pictex does not work (the driver apparently uses
> 'rotatebox') for me as stated.  It did compile after including the
> graphicsx package.  A MWE is at the help page for pictex.  I tried to
> get in touch with Valerio but his email bounced.  Probably we want to
> add a \usepackage{graphicsx} to the help page and try to track down
> Valerio.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kyle
>
>
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009)
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
> x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
>
> locale:
> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.10.1
>
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[Rd] pictex
Prof Brian Ripley