🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Potter, David M wrote:

> Hi --
>
> I am using S-Plus version 6.0, Release 1 for Unix (Sun SPARC).
>
> With previous versions of S-Plus, when I built classification/regression
> trees, I typically saved the trees to Postscript files using post.tree(),
> then converted them to Windows metafiles using GSview (Edit, convert to
> vector format) on my PC, so that I could then incorporate them into
> Microsoft documents (e.g., PowerPoint).
>
> Version 6.0 now has wmf.graph() that directly creates a Windows metafile.
> This works fine for the usual plot functions, Trellis plots, etc., but I'm
> wondering if the same could be done for tree output.  I'm envisioning
> something like a 'wmf.tree()' function.  Has this been looked at it?  Thanks
> for your help.

post.tree writes postscript directly, not via the drivers mechanism.
You can probably make use of the facilities of rpart, as post.rpart does
use the drivers mechanism.  I think you can convert trees to rpart
objects, but rpart is preferable anyway.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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