[R] vignettes: .png graphics or pre-compiled .pdf

[Yihui Xie]

I was reminded that the attachments were blocked by the list, so I
send these links again:

http://yihui.name/en/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Sweave2.Rnw
http://yihui.name/en/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Sweave2.r
http://yihui.name/en/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Sweave2.pdf

Regards,
Yihui
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Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
Phone: 515-294-6609 Web: http://yihui.name
Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
3211 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA



On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> I have a dirty solution as attached to use png() for Sweave.
>
> HTH.
>
> Regards,
> Yihui
> --
> Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com>
> Phone: 515-294-6609 Web: http://yihui.name
> Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
> 3211 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Michael Friendly <friendly at yorku.ca> wrote:
>> In a package I'm working on there is a vignette with a number of graphs that
>> result in huge .pdf files, so
>> the .pdf for the vignette is around 17 Mb.  If these graphs are converted to
>> .png, and the .tex file
>> is compiled with pdflatex, the resulting .pdf is ~1 Mb.
>>
>> I'm reluctant to put the .Rnw file into the package as is, generating the
>> huge .pdf for the vignette.
>> I first tried installing the smaller .pdf file in the package by itself (no
>> .Rnw)
>> together with a file inst/doc/index.html as recommended
>> in 'Writing R Extensions.'  However, when the package is installed,
>> vignette() can't find it
>>
>>> vignette(package="Guerry")
>> no vignettes found
>>> vignette("MultiSpat")
>> Warning message:
>> vignette 'MultiSpat' *not* found
>>
>> Alternatively, is there a way to generate .png graphs from the .Rnw file so
>> that those are used in building
>> the .pdf for the package?  AFAICS, \SweaveOpts{} offers only the choices of
>> eps/pdf = {TRUE/FALSE}.
>>
>> -Michael
>>
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