Release v0.8 · daqana/tikzDevice

Compatibility

This release doesn't work on OS X and Solaris. This will be resolved soon.

Thanks to Greg Jefferis, Bill Venables, Sam Mason, Gvozden Neskovic,
Martin Bergner and Casper Ti. Vector for contributing to this release.

Add parameter timestamp to tikz to make the output of the timestamp optional (#28,
#73, thanks Martin Bergner).
Add parameter lwdUnit to tikz to specify the physical width of a line
(in points) that is 1 unit wide in R. By default, the value of option
tikzLwdUnit is used; this option has a value of 0.4 at startup (#68,
thanks Casper Ti. Vector).
Optionally use symbolic colors defined in a single external file instead of
hard-coded colors defined in-place. New parameters symbolicColors,
colorFileName and maxSymbolicColors; new options tikzSymbolicColors
and tikzMaxSymbolicColors. The external file is only created if requested;
in this case, symbolic color names are used instead of fillColor and
drawColor (#70, thanks Martin Bergner).

Ignore fill color for lines to remove thin line (1 pixel wide) that was shown
with dashed or dotted lines on some viewers (#63, thanks Martin Bergner).
More robust handling of metrics dictionary. Changes to the
tikzMetricsDictionary option are recognized even if a metrics dictionary
already has been initialized, a message is printed the first time a dictionary
is used (in addition to the message that is printed when the dictionary is
created). A missing dictionary file is recreated (#21).
Performance improvements with zero-width strings (#66, thanks Gvozden Neskovic)
Add parameter checkstate to allow adding annotations to a new plot (#52,
thanks Sam Mason)
Allow raster images to be output without resampling by setting
options(tikzRasterResolution = NA) (#54, thanks Sam Mason)
In console mode, print a \relax statement after the comment to allow using
tikzDevice in a Sweave code chunk with results=tex, as advertised in the
vignette. (The default is strip.white=TRUE which makes the following
\begin{tikzpicture} appear on the same line as the encoding comment in the
resulting .tex file.) (#47, thanks Bill Venables)

Use knitr as vignette builder (#37).
Fixed typos (#45, thanks Greg Jefferis).
Vignette now also compiles if the zi4 TeX package is installed instead of
inconsolata. This should fix the CRAN notes and warnings on Windows.
Loading babel TeX package to avoid printing tilde in references (#49).