[R] Difficulties in interaction between R and latex (prosper)

[Ken Knoblauch]

I suspect that this is not really an R question but one for the
graphicx package of LaTeX.  Did you try the angle= argument
for the includegraphics command? eg,

\includegraphics[width=\linewidth,angle=90]{cm_test.eps}


Quoting Ajay Shah <ajayshah at mayin.org>:

> Hello, folks! I'm trying to use R as a graphics program, to make some
> pretty graphs that will go into prosper slideshows.
> 
> I wrote this fragment, from the R manual, into a file demo.R:
> 
>    x=seq(-3,3,0.1)
>    postscript("cm_test.eps", width = 4.0, height = 3.0,
>                horizontal = FALSE, onefile = FALSE, paper = "special",
>                family = "ComputerModern")
>    plot(x, sin(x), type="l")
> 
> I fed this into a simplest-possible tex file, named sl_demo.tex, which
> uses prosper:
> 
>    \documentclass[pdf,serpaggi,slideColor,colorBG]{prosper}
>    \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
>    \usepackage{graphicx}
>    \begin{document}
>      \begin{slide}{Demo}
>        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{cm_test.eps}
>      \end{slide}
>      \begin{slide}{This one works}
>        \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{thisworks.eps}
>      \end{slide}
>    \end{document}
> 
> The file cm_test.eps is produced using R. I left a file
> "thisworks.eps" there as a counterpoint (it was made using jgraph and
> it works fine).
> 
> The resulting sl_demo.pdf is attached. It's supposed to be a
> slideshow. Under Adobe acrobat, when I say Ctrl-L it must go
> fullscreen. That works correctly for thisworks.eps but not for the
> eps file that's made using R.
> 
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? How do I get the graph made using R
> to sit horizantally (i.e. landscape), and fill the screen? I tried to
> say "horizontal=T" and that doesn't work.
> 
> -- 
> Ajay Shah                                                   Consultant
> ajayshah at mayin.org                      Department of Economic Affairs
> http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah           Ministry of Finance, New Delhi
> 



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