[R] append to PDF file

[Uwe Ligges]

On 29.11.2011 13:15, R. Michael Weylandt wrote:
> I think you are looking for the system() command.

... and you certainly do not want to use savePlot but rather use the 
pdf() device directly.

Uwe Ligges

>
> Michael
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Christof Kluß<ckluss at email.uni-kiel.de>  wrote:
>> Hi Jim, Hi Ken
>>
>> Am 27-11-2011 00:00, schrieb jim holtman:
>>>
>>> There is the 'pdftk' (PDF tool kit) that you will find on the web that
>>> will do the job.  I have used it to both combine and split out the
>>> pages in the PDF file.
>>
>> yes, thx. GUI tools like www.pdfsam.org do the job too. But is there a
>> possibility to append files directly in R. That is to invoke "pdftk" inside
>> R with a "shellandwait"?
>>
>> perhaps something like
>>
>> for (i in ...) {
>>   ...
>>   savePlot(filename="temp.pdf", type="pdf")
>>   exec pdftk temp.pdf final.pdf cat output final.pdf
>> }
>>
>> greetings
>> Christof
>>
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