[R] R graphs in LaTeX documents?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

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
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