Dear Paul,

I stand corrected. Your solution was the right way. The following code now
works:
(Apparently I still need to specify the width command as my pdf is
incorrectly sized by default)

\begin{figure*}[b]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=8in]{generatedPDF.pdf}
\end{center}
\end{figure*}

There is a full explanation in the template.tex file which can be found in
the RNews tutorial here: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/template.tex

Thank you for your time.

Best regards,
Arjun

>
>
> Try putting your image in a figure* environment (should go full width of
> the page).
>
> Paul
>
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