[R] Is the page number in a document created with "pdf()" accessible?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Dennis Fisher wrote:

> When I create pdf documents in R using pdf(), each page has text in the outer 
> margin indicating the page number.

It neither has an outer margin nor anything there, unless you added code 
to do this.  I guess your PDF viewer is adding this.

> I track page numbers in a cumbersome 
> manner.  Is the page number in a multi-page document tracked internally by 
> par() or some other function?

It's in the PDF file (part of the definition of PDF) and is tracked by the 
device driver.

See ?plot.new / ?grid.newpage: you could use hooks to do the counting.

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