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R + LaTeX formula

4 messages · Jonas Stein, Marc Schwartz, Frank E Harrell Jr +1 more

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Jonas Stein
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Hi,

what is actually the best method to include R-plots into LaTeX documents?
At the moment i use 

postscript("myplot.eps", width = 12.0, height = 9.0, horizontal = FALSE, 
onefile = TRUE, paper = "special",encoding = "TeXtext.enc")
plot(foo,bar)
dev.off()  

But it is a bit unhandy to scale later and its difficult to get nice 
formula in the plots.

And how should i write formulas on the axis or at specific points? 
Has someone had some effort in exporting plots to pstricks or pictex?

kind regards and thank you for reading so far,
Marc Schwartz
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On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 01:04 +0000, Jonas Stein wrote:
As per the Details section of ?postscript:

The postscript produced for a single R plot is EPS (Encapsulated
PostScript) compatible, and can be included into other documents, e.g.,
into LaTeX, using \includegraphics{<filename>}. For use in this way you
will probably want to set horizontal = FALSE, onefile = FALSE, paper =
"special". Note that the bounding box is for the device region: if you
find the white space around the plot region excessive, reduce the
margins of the figure region via par(mar=).


In your code above, change 'onefile = TRUE' to 'onefile = FALSE'.

For scaling you can use the LaTeX \includegraphics directive along with
several height and width arguments, such as:

  \includegraphics[width=4in]{myplot.eps}
  \includegraphics[height=4in]{myplot.eps}
  \includegraphics[scale=0.75]{myplot.eps}
  \includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{myplot.eps}

You might want to review the following document:

  ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/epslatex.pdf 

For including formulae in R plots, see ?plotmath. You can run
example(plotmath) and there are many posts in the r-help archives on
this.

Beyond the above, you may want to look into using SWeave, whereby you
can create entire documents, with nicely formatted tables and plots
directly from R code. More information here:

  http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch/Sweave/

There are also a couple of articles on R News:

Friedrich Leisch. Sweave, part I: Mixing R and LATEX. R News,
2(3):28-31, December 2002.

Friedrich Leisch. Sweave, part II: Package vignettes. R News,
3(2):21-24, October 2003.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz
Frank E Harrell Jr
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Marc Schwartz wrote:
In addition to Marc's excellent summary (as usual) please see 
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/SgraphicsHints and especially the link 
about putting LaTeX typesetting inside graphics (which requires Perl).

Frank
Uwe Ligges
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I haven't read about R's math-notation facilities in this thread, hence 
my question for Jonas Stein: Have you already looked into ?plotmath ?


Uwe Ligges
Frank E Harrell Jr wrote: