metapost (version 1.0-6)

mpost: Run mpost on a MetaPost File

Description

Run mpost on a MetaPost file, possibly with additional options.

Usage

mpost(file = "fig.mp",
      cmd = NULL, template = NULL, format = NULL, tracing = TRUE)

Arguments

file

The name of a file containing MetaPost code.

cmd

The command to use to run mpost. By default Sys.which is used to find a sensible value.

template

The naming template for the output files that are produced (see mpost's outputtemplate option).

format

The output format (see mpost's outputformat option).

tracing

A logical value indicating whether to generate a log file containing solved paths (see mpost's tracingchoices option).

Value

Used for its side effect of producing output files and log files.

Details

By default, tracing is TRUE, which produces a log file that can be read into R using mptrace.

Both output and log files will be produced in the same directory as the file.

See Also

metapost, mptrace

Examples

# NOT RUN {
oldunits <- options(metapost.units="in")
p <- knot(0, 0) + dir(0) + dir(0) + knot(1, 1)
mpfile <- file.path(tempdir(), "fig.mp")
metapost(p, mpfile)
mpost(mpfile)
options(oldunits)
# }