Perhaps you should try http://www.rforge.net/pgfSweave/


On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:38 PM, maiya <maja.zaloznik@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Wow! Thank you for that Ted, a wonderfully comprehensive explanation and
> now
> everything makes perfect sense!!
>
> Regarding your last point, I would love to hear other people's experience.
> I
> myself, as a complete newbie in both R and LaTeX, am perhaps not the best
> judge... But there are several graphics packages that can be used directly
> in LaTeX to do what you propose (the Latex Graphics Companion that I own is
> about 1000 pages worth of material to help you not be able to make up your
> mind..).
>
> I have found postscript the easiest and most intuitive and you can write
> postscript graphics directly in Latex using the pstricks package. So yes,
> you are right, I could just use the data from R directly (and I hope that
> when I become a dinosaur I will be able to create graphs just as beautiful
> as yours!).
>
> But there are R plots that I would rather not attempt to code myself, in
> particular mosaic plots, so I prefer to import them from R as eps files and
> then use psfrag to get the nice LaTeX typesetting for the labels, equations
> etc. to make it "fit" visually.
>
> But then with the sheer volume of options figuring out what is the optimal
> combination for a particular application, or whether the learning curve is
> worth it is always going to be an problem..
> I guess for all that evolution with nothing ever going extinct, we will
> each
> end up a very individual fossil.
>
> Maja
>
>
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