I use Sweave for this kind of purposes. HTH,
Thierry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest Cel biometrie, methodologie en kwaliteitszorg / Section biometrics, methodology and quality assurance Gaverstraat 4 9500 Geraardsbergen Belgium tel. + 32 54/436 185 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.inbo.be Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. ~William W. Watt A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions. ~M.J.Moroney > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Rainer M Krug > Verzonden: woensdag 17 oktober 2007 11:02 > Aan: Prof Brian Ripley > CC: r-help > Onderwerp: Re: [R] One pdf file with plots and text output > > Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Rainer M Krug wrote: > > > >> Hi > >> > >> I create one pdf file with plots via pdf() and one text file with > >> text via sink() that works very nice. But I would prefer > to have one > >> pdf file with plots and the text which I store in the > te=xt file via sink(). I.e. > >> > >> x.lm<-lm(...) > >> pdf() > >> plot(x.lm) > >> NOW THE TEXT OF summary(xlm) IN THE PDF FILE > >> dev.off() > >> > >> Is this possible or is there a different format which I could use? > > > > You can easily post-process the files to obtain a single > file. Going > > from text to pdf involves many arbitrary choices, but a good text > > processor will help you make those and incorporate pdf figures: I > > would use pdflatex, but there are many other tools to do the job. > > > Thanks for pointing out the post-processing route (I have > done similar script based pdf creations via pdflatex before), > but I would like to have something only for me to make it > easier to read the results. > It does not need to be nicely layouted - just the text in the > pdf in whatever font would be fine. > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.

