And We're Back!

Okay, apparently Blogger decided that this was a spam blog for a while there and I didn't notice because I had other things to do this week. All sorted out now it seems. To celebrate, I updated the leopard branch of the RExecServer repository to activate bitmap graphics output to files, thusly:

quartz("public.jpeg:Rplot.jpg")

Supported UTIs are public.jpg,public.tiff,public.png and public.jpeg-2000. public.pdf will be coming along in the not too distance future. This is actually a side effect of moving from using raw bitmaps in the GUI to using png images. Your average statistical graphic is usually pretty easy to compress so you can get from ~500K for a raw image down to ~20K pretty easily. On the server side it doesn't matter much because we only keep one bitmap for each device, but on the GUI we're keeping a potentially large number of pages that can eat up RAM.

To people tracking the repository, the leopard branch is really no different from the master branch. I just push work done in my Leopard partition there before migrating to the master branch with a test run in Tiger. The leopard branch will work in Tiger unless I've made a mistake.

In other news, posting will be spotty of the next week. I'm heading down to Los Angeles tomorrow afternoon and then down to San Diego on Wednesday and Internet access will come and go.