[R] knitr and functions generating latex

[Yihui Xie]

I think in most cases you are probably on the wrong track if you have
to generate LaTeX code for figures from R code (LaTeX tables are
another story), but your case might be different. You did not give a
specific example on why you had to do that, so I cannot give any
advice for now.

My best guess is

<<results='asis'>>=
whatever_your_figure_functions_are()
@

So please provide a minimal example, and avoid indefinite descriptions
like "seems" or "feels like" (in particular, "this should be easy"
made me feel my IQ suddenly dropped by 50%).

Regards,
Yihui
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On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Daryl Morris <darylm at uw.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have what I think should be a basic question on knitr.  I am just moving
> to knitr, and previously I had created functions which automatically created
> latex wrappers for many (100s) figures.  I also have other functions which
> automatically create pages worth of latex tables.
>
> The knitr method seems to be to write this figure code by hand.
>
> Is there a way to use my pre-existing functions to output latex into the
> .Rnw document?  So far, everything I've tried isn't doing it. (I've been
> modifying the functions to output big strings of latex instead of writing
> files, and trying various methods to print that output into the .Rnw file).
>
> It feels like this should be easy... the output of the R-block is latex.
>
>
> thanks, Daryl
>
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