[BioC] Printing arrayQualityMetrics report

James F. Reid reidjf at gmail.com
Fri Jun 22 10:11:45 CEST 2012


Hi,

suggestion below

On 21/06/12 23:02, Wolfgang Huber wrote:
> Dear David
>
> I get a reasonable PDF with default settings on Firefox 13 on a Mac OS X
> 10.6.8. I will send you this off-list. However, it is not perfect and
> some twiddling with printer formating may improve things.
>
> I do not perceive the production of reports in (or fully automated
> conversion into) PDF as a high priority, and since your use case is a
> 'one-off', why don't you take the LaTeX that you get from html2latex and
> manually edit it to your needs? After all, the report is not exactly a
> very complex document, just a couple of text blocks with figures
> interspersed.
>
> Hope this helps
> Wolfgang
>
>
>
>
>
> Jun/21/12 5:01 PM, David Westergaard scripsit::
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to include an arrayQualityMetrics report in my appendix,
>> but I am finding it very difficult to produce a pretty version as a
>> pdf. I have tried simply to print to file in both Google Chrome and
>> Iceweasel, and both of them are having trouble placing the figures
>> correctly in the pdf. I have also tried to convert index.html to LaTeX
>> using html2latex, which did not work either.
>>
>> Is it possible to produce a non-interactive pdf (Or something similar)
>> which can be included in a thesis, written in LaTe, from
>> arrayQualityMetrtics? I could not find any information about this in
>> the documentation.
>>
>> Best,
>> David
>>
>
>

you could extract the table contents using the readHTMLTable function 
from the 'XML' package and for the figures just include the pdfs as 
figures and add a caption to them.

HTH,
J.



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