[R] eps file not positioned properly in latex document

[Torsten Hothorn]

> Dear People,
> 
> I am trying to include a barplot (see code below), in a latex document.
> However, the plot appears in totally the wrong position. 

What means "totally the wrong position"?

> I know this is
> not an R question as such, but the eps file is produced by R and I thought
> that perhaps other people had had similar problems and could give me
> pointers. Am I doing anything obviously wrong?
> 
>                    Sincerely, Faheem Mitha.
> 
> PS. the code I use to include the eps file is 
> 
> \begin{figure}  
> \includegraphics[scale=0.7]{barplot.eps} 
> \end{figure}

I tried:

\usepackage{epsfig}

blablabla...

\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
\epsfig{file=barplot.eps}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

with your code, which looks fine.

Note the waring messages:

>  roy <- c("white","blue","yellow")
>  collen <- c(31,33,33)
>  fmcol <- rep(roy,collen)
> 
>  postscript(file="barplot.eps",width=6.3,height=3,bg="white",
+           horizontal=FALSE,paper="special",onefile=FALSE,fg="black")
>  
>  barplot(c(0.1,0.2,0.2,0.4,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.1), col=fmcol,
+
names.arg=c("-3","-2","-1","0","1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10"),
+  ylim=c(0,0.5),xlab="Values of x",ylab="Probability values",sub=NULL,
+  style="old",main="Probability Histogram")
Warning messages: 
1: parameter "style" couldn't be set in high-level plot() function 
2: parameter "style" couldn't be set in high-level plot() function 
>  
>  dev.off()
null device 
          1 

Torsten

> 
> which seems harmless enough.             Faheem.
> 
> *************************************************************************
> 
> roy <- c("white","blue","yellow")
> collen <- c(31,33,33)
> fmcol <- rep(roy,collen)
> 
> postscript(file="barplot.eps",width=6.3,height=3,bg="white",
>          horizontal=FALSE,paper="special",onefile=FALSE,fg="black")
> 
> barplot(c(0.1,0.2,0.2,0.4,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0.1), col=fmcol,
> names.arg=c("-3","-2","-1","0","1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10"),
> ylim=c(0,0.5),xlab="Values of x",ylab="Probability values",sub=NULL,
> style="old",main="Probability Histogram")
> 
> dev.off()
> 
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