[R] sweave tables as images?

[Alexander Shenkin]

Thanks Yihui,

That's a great idea, and comes close to the mark, except that I have to
use png's in order to "Insert & Link" them as pictures in Word (and
hence make the doc both shareable and update when new figures are
generated).

thanks,
allie

On 5/25/2012 2:57 PM, Yihui Xie wrote:
> You may take a look at knitr's graphics manual which tells you how you
> can automatically crop the white margins:
> https://github.com/downloads/yihui/knitr/knitr-graphics.pdf ("Cropping
> PDF Graphics").
> 
> I'm not sure if pdfcrop works in this case, though.
> 
> Regards,
> Yihui
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> 
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Alexander Shenkin <ashenkin at ufl.edu> wrote:
>> 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