One pdf file with plots and text output

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Van: Rainer M Krug [mailto:Rainer+R-help op krugs.de] 
Verzonden: woensdag 17 oktober 2007 11:28
Aan: ONKELINX, Thierry
CC: Prof Brian Ripley; r-help
Onderwerp: Re: [R] One pdf file with plots and text output

ONKELINX, Thierry wrote:

I use Sweave for this kind of purposes.

I was thinking about Sweave as well, but I don't understand 
how I can use it.

Let's say I have a source file, which defines a function

DoGrowthAll <- function()
   {
     pdf("GrowthAll.pdf", height=11, width=8, paper="a4")
     sink("GrowthAll.txt")
     try(
         {
           plot(x.lm)
           summary(xlm)
           .
           .
           .
         }
         )
     sink()
     dev.off()
     system("xpdf ./GrowthAll.pdf", wait=FALSE)
   }

Now how can I use Sweave to create this report?

Rainer

HTH,

Thierry

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-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: r-help-bounces op r-project.org
[mailto:r-help-bounces op r-project.org] Namens Rainer M Krug
Verzonden: woensdag 17 oktober 2007 11:02
Aan: Prof Brian Ripley
CC: r-help
Onderwerp: Re: [R] One pdf file with plots and text output

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Rainer M Krug wrote:

Hi

I create one pdf file with plots via pdf() and one text 

file with 

text via sink() that works very nice. But I would prefer

to have one

pdf file with plots and the text which I store in the

te=xt file via sink(). I.e.

x.lm<-lm(...)
pdf()
plot(x.lm)
NOW THE TEXT OF summary(xlm) IN THE PDF FILE
dev.off()

Is this possible or is there a different format which I 

could use?

You can easily post-process the files to obtain a single

file.  Going

from text to pdf involves many arbitrary choices, but a good text 
processor will help you make those and incorporate pdf figures: I 
would use pdflatex, but there are many other tools to do the job.

Thanks for pointing out the post-processing route (I have done 
similar script based pdf creations via pdflatex before), 

but I would 

like to have something only for me to make it easier to read the 
results.
It does not need to be nicely layouted - just the text in 

the pdf in 

whatever font would be fine.