[R] [R-gui] Tinn-R/Latex output

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

hadley wickham wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Frank E Harrell Jr
> <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>> Mike Prager wrote:
>>> "David Carslaw" <D.C.Carslaw at its.leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I find Tinn-R to be an excellent editor for R, but I have one question I
>>>> have not been able to answer.
>>>>  I wish to include some R code in Latex.  Using the Edit/Copy formatted
>>>> (to export)/TeX does provide Latex-type output.  However, there are lots
>>>> of commands such as \RAIdentifier and \RAOperator etc. that would appear
>>>> to need either a Latex package to interpret or a list of new commands
>>>> that describe font attributes etc.
>>>>
>>>> My question is whether such a package exists, or is the user expected to
>>>> define their own commands to interpret them?
>>>
>>> David,
>>>
>>> I also find Tinn-R an excellent editor for R.
>>>
>>> When I include R code in Latex, I use the Latex "listings"
>>> package. It has a wide variety of settings for pretty-printing R
>>> code and can be customized by the user.  I think that would be
>>> more satisfactory in the long run than inserting Latex codes (or
>>> having an editor insert Latex codes) to mark R language
>>> elements.
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>> Mike P.
>>>
>> The following is how I set up the listings package usage for R.  If you have
>> improvements to this please pass them along. -Frank
>>
>> \usepackage{listings,relsize}
>> %Setup for listings package
>> \lstloadlanguages{R}
>> \lstset{language=R,basicstyle=\smaller[2],commentstyle=\rmfamily\smaller,
>>  showstringspaces=false,%
>>  xleftmargin=4ex,literate={<-}{{$\leftarrow$}}1 {~}{{$\sim$}}1}
>> \lstset{escapeinside={(*}{*)}}   % for (*\ref{ }*) inside lstlistings (S
>> code)
> 
> I have played around with:
> 
> \definecolor{comment}{rgb}{0.60, 0.60, 0.53}
> \definecolor{background}{rgb}{0.97, 0.97, 1.00}
> \definecolor{string}{rgb}{0.863, 0.066, 0.266}
> \definecolor{number}{rgb}{0.0, 0.6, 0.6}
> \definecolor{variable}{rgb}{0.00, 0.52, 0.70}
> \lstset{
>   basicstyle=\ttfamily,
>   keywordstyle=\bfseries,
>   identifierstyle=,
>   commentstyle=\color{comment} \itshape,
>   stringstyle=, %\color{string}
>   showstringspaces=false,
>   columns = fullflexible,
>   backgroundcolor=\color{background},
>   mathescape = true,
>   escapeinside=&&,
>   fancyvrb
> }
> 
> Hadley
> 
> 

Thanks Hadley.  Your specificatins generated a couple of syntax errors 
for me and typeset the code too large but I'd like to play with it and 
I'm glad to have it.

Frank

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Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University