[R] Merge postscript files into ps/pdf

[Greg Snow]

The best approach if creating all the files using R is to change how you create the graphs so that they all go to one file to begin with (as mentioned by Joshua), but if some of the files are created differently (rgl, external programs), then this is not an option.  

One external program that is fairly easy to use is pdftk which will concatenate multiple pdf files into 1 (among other things).  If you want more control of layout then you can use LaTeX which will read and include ps/pdf.

If you need to use R, then you can read ps files using the grImport package and then replot them to a postscript/pdf device with onefile set to TRUE.

-- 
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Ralf B
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 12:07 AM
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> Subject: [R] Merge postscript files into ps/pdf
> 
> I created multiple postscript files using ?postscript. How can I merge
> them into a single postscript file using R? How can I merge them into
> a single pdf file?
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Ralf
> 
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