Cairo PDF Graphics Device useful for Sweave — cairoSwd • sfsmisc

Provides a graphics device for Sweave, based on cairo_pdf. The advantage of cairoSwd() compared to pdf() is its support of Unicode characters.

cairoSwd(name, width, height, ...)

Arguments

name: file name prefix to which .pdf will be appended.
width, height: in inches, see cairo_pdf.
...: further arguments, passed to cairo_pdf()

Note

Sweave devices need to have an argument list as above.

Usage in a Sweave chunk:


<<some-plot, fig=TRUE, grdevice=cairoSwd>>=

Author

Alain Hauser

See also

pdf, cairo_pdf, Sweave.