I have no doubt it will be useful to many.
On behalf of all of us for whom the pdf() driver (and, indeed R itself) has
lightened the burden, thank you for your efforts!
Regards,
Mike
Prof Brian Ripley
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08/02/2002 09:20 AM
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.
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
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