R graphs in LaTeX documents?
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 Michael_Nielsen/Syd/Synergy.SYNERGY at synergy.com.au wrote:
I'll admit to being somewhat of a graphics meathead, but recently needed to put lots of R graphics into a report that I was typesetting with LaTeX (well, pdflatex on Linux). I couldn't coerce pdflatex to use the eps graphics (it seems to be there has to be a way, but I was in too much of a
The only good way is to convert .eps to pdf (or, much worse, to png). The best way to do that is Adobe Distiller, the second-best way epsftopdf, a Perl script / Windows program calling ghostscript, preferably 6.0 or later. It is practically identical to what bitmap() does in R.
hurry to try to find it), so I asked R to generate the graphics directly into PDF, and then included them into my LaTeX with an \includegraphics. To me, the result looked pretty good -- much better, in fact, than it did with either jpg or png output, although the poor result with jpg and png could well be because of my naive choices for the various settings of things required along the way.
That's typical for the sort of graphs one produces in R.
Anyway, I am continually impressed with R's ability to produce good results in spite of my somewhat inelegant (ok, ham-fisted) approach.
I wrote the pdf() driver because it seemed a cleaner solution, and it was an intellectual challenge. From this thread it seems it has much more use than I realized, which is nice to know.
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