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

[Michael Friendly]

Thanks, Yihui
Your solution, for png(), only looks dirty because you had to hack the 
Sweave code.
It would be nice to have png() support included directly.

Yihui Xie wrote:
> 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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>
> 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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