[R] sprucing up the R homepage

[Tim Churches]

Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Murrell <paul at stat.auckland.ac.nz>
>>>>>>     on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:13:05 +0200 writes:
> 
>     Paul> Hi
>     Paul> elw at stderr.org wrote:
>     >> 
>     >> 
>     >>> So I applied my corrected margins to Tim's Cairo trick and voila:
>     >>> http://www.broad.mit.edu/~finnyk/Rlogo_swiss.png
>     >>> This is hands-down the best version, in my opinion!
>     >> 
>     >> Yes, it is definitely much nicer than the version on www.r-project.org 
>     >> now.  :-)
> 
> 
>     Paul> Much nicer.  Thanks guys!
> 
> Thanks indeed!
> 
> 
>     Paul> Before we update the homepage, we should probably just
>     Paul> check with the original "artist" (Eric Lecoutre,
>     Paul> cc'ed) and we would need a description of the final
>     Paul> technique you used to add as a comment to the code
>     Paul> "behind" the image.
> 
> Yes, that was my "concern" too. After all, with R (and Sweave
> and ...) advocating ``reproducible research'' in many ways,
> I'd very much like a reproducible image there; we can live with
> using non-R code for post processing (did I correctly get that you used
> Imagemagick derived utilities)..

No, no post-processing. It just uses the Cairo device driver for R,
which is a library available on CRAN (highy recommended). The only other
change was some minor changes to margins in teh R code itself.

Tim C