Questions tagged [grimport]
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Using an image as point icon in ggmap
I am trying to create a simple ggmap with a number of schools. I can easily get to the point where the schools show up as points on the map (code below). But, I would like to bring in an image of a school icon to use instead of the points.
As far…

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Windows R:grImport ghostscript error 'status 127'
I've installed Ghostscript and grImport in R (Windows, Rstudio). I'm following the tutorial but I immediately get the error,
> library(grImport)
Loading required package: grid
Loading required package: XML
> PostScriptTrace("petal.ps")
Error in…

noname
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Use SVG images as symbols in gglot2
I would like to use vector graphics stored in external files (e.g. SVG) as my plotting symbols in a ggplot2 figure. e.g. following this example from the grImport vignette (Fig. 8) https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/grImport/vignettes/import.pdf…

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Alter color in Picture class in grImport
I found a terrific package grImport for reading in .ps files (vector vs. raster). It works very well and the reader can find the package info here:
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/grImport/grImport.pdf
and a demo…

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Insert figure in a multipanel plot using R
I need to insert 4 graphic pictures (.ps) into a multipanel (4 boxes) using R. Does anybody has a tip for it?
I have search a lot and I didn't find a solution. The way I'm trying now (but no success) is using screen:
m <- rbind(c(0.1, 0.55, 0.55,…

João Hackerott
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changing height of picture in grid.symbol function of grImport package
I'm following this example from the grImport package vignette page 15:
R> xyplot(V8 ~ V7, data = flower,
+ xlab = "Height", ylab = "Distance Apart",
+ panel = function(x, y, ...) {
+ grid.symbols(PSflower, x, y, units = "native",
+ size = unit(5,…

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Properly lay out external svg files in ggarrange
Long story short, I have a few svg images which I want to lay out using ggarrange (and ideally get into a ggplot to use ggtitle() and so on).
I can import the images with rsvg and grImport, but the layout get's somehow messed…

user1235130
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Extract plotting region coordinates for grid.picture() in R
Background
I am plotting the following image:
Using this code:
par(mfrow = c(2, 2),
mar = c(2, 2, 2, 2))
plot(1, col = "red", pch = 15)
plot(1, col = "blue", pch = 15)
plot(1, col = "orange", pch = 15)
plot(1, col = "purple", pch = 15)
I'd…

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Difference between ggplot and grid.picture with complex shapes
I wish to obtain the x/y coordinates of individual letters and plot them with ggplot.
I am using grImport::PostScriptTrace to obtain an XML file from a Postscript file. From there I extract x, y coordinates from the S4 object of class…

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plotting svg via grImport2 works fine in terminal, not via knitr
The below chunk works fine inside the terminal, but ominously fails when run via knitr (or rather, rmarkdown).
---
title: "test-svg"
author: "foo"
date: "8/12/2018"
output: html_document
---
# Title
```{r}
# please download this file …

maxheld
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How do I use a 'picture' object as a symbol in a graph key?
I'm creating a graph using xyplot() from lattice, and using the grImport package to plot a picture as a plotting symbols with grid.symbols().
This is a brief version of the code for my graph, where 'mypic' is the picture object (created with…

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PostScriptTrace Error
I am trying to import a vector graphic of the brain into R using the GrImport function. When inserting the following function:
PostScriptTrace("~/Dropbox/shared/Brain_mapping/Human-brain.ps", "~/Dropbox/shared/Brain_mapping/Human-brain.xml")
I get…

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Major issue grimport : scripts ids system broken
I had too many scripts, and I wanted to show only the most important ones.
I copied the database table ps_megaimporter_concurrents to a replicate table, ps_megaimporter_concurrents_ex, and I deleted most of the scripts I didn't use, but I did it…

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Get xy path coordinates of letters in a word
I wish to use gganimate and tweener to morph some letters into other letters. Thus, I need a dataframe of x, y coordinates for each letter in a word as input to ggplot.
I'm not really sure how to do this, but my thinking is that library(grImport)…

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get too many request in ASP.NET MVC
I have a project with ASP.NET MVC at the end, I Installed Glimpse and get a log, the result log was stange. I have 24088 requests.
How can I know where request call? I have just about 15 css and js files and about 5 action call.
How can I decrease…

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