[R] orientation of eps files

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Yes, and it happens because by default R's plots have rotated text on the 
y axis, and it is this that tends to trigger auto-rotation.

The answer is in

https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2003-October/027766.html

various other items in the thread being off the point.

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Roger D. Peng wrote:

> This is ghostscript feature, I believe.  See here:
>
> https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2003-October/027759.html
>
> I usually do
>
> setenv GS_OPTIONS "-dAutoRotatePages=/None"
>
> in tcsh.
>
> -roger
>
> Andrew Collier wrote:
>> hello,
>> 
>> i have a problem with the orientation of eps files produced with the 
>> postscript() command. i have generated some eps files with R using:
>> 
>> postscript(file = filename, horizontal = FALSE, paper = "special", onefile 
>> = F
>> ALSE, height = height, width = width, pointsize = pointsize)
>> 
>> now, when i include these eps files into a standard paper document (ie. a4 
>> paper, portrait orientation) everything is fine.
>> 
>> however, i am now wanting to incorporate the same images into a 
>> presentation. i am making a pdf file, which for presentation purposes is in 
>> landscape orientation. i am using latex with the prosper package. images 
>> are included with \includegraphics{} and a pdf file is generated with 
>> dvipdf. however, in this case, when i include the eps figures the whole 
>> page suddenly gets rotated around into portrait. eps files from other 
>> packages seem to work fine.
>> 
>> there is an example of the problem at 
>> ftp://chinstrap.nu.ac.za/orientation.pdf.
>> 
>> if you have any ideas as to what might be causing this problem, i would be 
>> extremely happy to hear them.
>> 
>> best regards,
>> andrew.
>> 
>
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