[R] sweave tables as images?

[Alexander Shenkin]

grid.table() works well, but using it in sweave creates graphics with
very wide margins.  I'm sure this has something to do with grid, and not
just grid.table.  Any idea how I can clip the graphic to the edges of
the table graphic?  I've looked into viewports, etc, but I can't seem to
find anything that will clip a graphic to its edges, perhaps with some
defined margin.

any help greatly appreciated!

thanks,
allie

On 5/21/2012 3:33 PM, R. Michael Weylandt wrote:
> Take a look at addtable2plot in plotrix or grid.table / tableGrob in
> gridExtras.
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Alexander Shenkin <ashenkin at ufl.edu> wrote:
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> I've been on a journey trying to figure out how to manage documents that
>> are amenable to sharing and editing, but that contain dynamic content
>> generated by R.  I've come to the following solution: I use Sweave to
>> generate labeled png & pdf figures, and I "Insert & Link" those figures
>> as "Pictures" in a Word 2010 doc.  Thus, when data or code changes, I
>> regenerate the figures with Sweave, open the Word doc and hit "F9", and
>> all the figures are automatically updated.  I can send the file around,
>> folks can comment and edit, track changes, etc.
>>
>> Now, however, I'm trying to do the same for tables that I did for
>> figures, and it seems a bit more difficult.  I can spit out tex tables
>> into separate files using the "split=TRUE" chunk option, and I can even
>> make those tables into html with xtable(type="html").  Word, however,
>> doesn't have the "Insert & Link" option for external text files (which
>> makes it such that, if the external file isn't found, Word uses a copy
>> stored in the doc).
>>
>> So, I think it will be better if I can somehow generate the tables as
>> images.  Is there any way to generate tables as images in separate files
>> in Sweave?  Or, is there another tree up which I should be barking?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Allie
>>
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