Mixing text and graphics in PDF
"kevin" == Kevin Wright <Wright> writes:
kevin> I guess I should have emphasize the word "easy" in the original post. I am
kevin> aware of Sweave and have used it to produce terrific quality output, but it
kevin> takes quite a bit of effort to get that quality (setting up tex document,
kevin> erasing previous graphics, running the script, tex'ing the output, etc).
kevin> HTML code with separate graphic images seems even more work.
kevin> I was hoping for a non-presentation quality way to dump both graphics and
kevin> text straight from R into pdf file using the pdf() device. Something akin
kevin> to the way a Mathematica or Maple session looks like.
actually, the ESS noweb mode facilitates a great deal of this
production. Combine it with an appropriate makefile, and document
construction (and verification of the results) is pretty trivial.
I recognize that we need to make tools like xtable cleaner to use (not
easier, just cleaner IMHO), and ESS needs to provide template
insertion for figures (and xtable runs). That is coming.
The figures issue might be more critical -- I should probably figure
out the right incantation for the standard plot methods which produce
multiple figures...
kevin> The idea of a Mathematica-style transcript session is quite appealing to me
kevin> the more I think about it, but might be too-much work for the R community to
kevin> create. Even the commercial software S-Plus lacks such reporting
kevin> capabilities. Think--"summary" methods could produce text AND graphics--an
kevin> intriguing idea.
Again, it's a fairly small step for the ESS interface; mostly template
construction and the issues raised above. We are thinking about it!
best,
-tony
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