[R] Formatting Sweave in R-News

[Paul Murrell]

Hi


Arjun Ravi Narayan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am editing a document for submission to the R-news newsletter, and
> in my article my Sweave code inserts a dynamically generated PDF
> report that my R program generates.
> 
> However, when I insert the PDF using the following Sweave code:
> 
> \newpage
> \includegraphics[scale=1.0]{\Sexpr{print(location)}}
> \newpage
> 
> (in tex this looks like):
> \newpage
> \includegraphics[scale=1.0]{/home/arjun/sample.pdf}
> \newpage


Try putting your image in a figure* environment (should go full width of 
the page).

Paul


> 
> However, the r-news style package over-rides everything that I can set
> (including using the minipage option) to make my included PDF small
> sized. Part of the problem is that the R-news style specifies a
> two-column formatting, and so the PDF is shrunk to fit in one column.
> How can I, for just one page, over-ride the styles to include the PDF?
> Even if I hard-hack the graphics to be scaled up in size, that does
> not get rid of the vertical line that in between the two columns, and
> thus breaking my image.
> 
> I realise that this is not an R problem, but more a latex problem, but
> I am hoping that somebody has faced similar problems with the Rnews
> styles and has an idea on how to do this.
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Yours sincerely,


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