>
> Thank you Paul for your response. Unfortunately that did not work. A
> figure environment frames it neatly, but still contained in only one column.
> I have tried various methods, but they all seem to not work, or if the
> solutions involve manually setting the size, the grey column separator still
> runs through the middle of the page.
>
> I know a solution exists, because on page 21, Vol 1/1 of R-News, there is
> an image that spans both columns. Do you know where I could get the Rnw
> source files for R-news articles? That would at least allow me to trawl for
> a solution.
>
> Best regards,
> Arjun
>
> On 8/22/07, Paul Murrell <paul@stat.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> >
> > Arjun Ravi Narayan wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am editing a document for submission to the R-news newsletter, and
> > > in my article my Sweave code inserts a dynamically generated PDF
> > > report that my R program generates.
> > >
> > > However, when I insert the PDF using the following Sweave code:
> > >
> > > \newpage
> > > \includegraphics[scale=1.0]{\Sexpr{print(location)}}
> > > \newpage
> > >
> > > (in tex this looks like):
> > > \newpage
> > > \includegraphics[scale=1.0]{/home/arjun/sample.pdf}
> > > \newpage
> >
> >
> > Try putting your image in a figure* environment (should go full width of
> > the page).
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > >
> > > However, the r-news style package over-rides everything that I can set
> > > (including using the minipage option) to make my included PDF small
> > > sized. Part of the problem is that the R-news style specifies a
> > > two-column formatting, and so the PDF is shrunk to fit in one column.
> > > How can I, for just one page, over-ride the styles to include the PDF?
> > > Even if I hard-hack the graphics to be scaled up in size, that does
> > > not get rid of the vertical line that in between the two columns, and
> > > thus breaking my image.
> > >
> > > I realise that this is not an R problem, but more a latex problem, but
> > > I am hoping that somebody has faced similar problems with the Rnews
> > > styles and has an idea on how to do this.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > >
> > > Yours sincerely,
> >
> >
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