On Oct 5, 2012, at 3:32 PM, clangkamp <christian.langk...@gmxpro.de> wrote:
> Hi Everyone > > I am at the moment preparing my thesis and am looking at producing a few > Organigrams / Flow charts (unrelated to the calculations in R) as well as a > range of charts (barcharts, histograms, ...) based on calculations in R. > > For the Organigrams I am looking at an Opensource package called GLE at > sourceforge, which produces the text part in Latex figures which is very > neat and also in the same style of the thesis, which I wrote in LaTeX. It > also offers a range of graphical features, and I am quite tempted. > > It also produces barcharts and histograms with the options of legends etc. I > have done most of my graphs so far with R, but with Organigrams and flow > charts I am at a loss (A pointer here would also be very welcome). For some > charts I have used MS Visio, but it would be convenient to use just one > program for graphing throughout the thesis (i.e. same colour coding etc.). > > Does anybody have any experience with GLE, ideally working with it with CSV > tables generated within R ? Or does there exist another way to generate > 'visually LaTeX consistent' graphics within R ? > > Any takers ? If you are comfortable in LaTeX, I would suggest that you look at PSTricks: http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi I use that for creating subject disposition flow charts for clinical trials with Sweave. I can then use \Sexpr{}'s to fill in various annotations in the boxes, etc. so that all content is programmatically created in a reproducible fashion. There are some examples of flow charts and tree diagrams here: http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=pst-node/psmatrix/psmatrix#flowchart and there are various other online resources for using PSTricks. Keep in mind that since this is PostScript based, you need to use a latex + dvips + ps2pdf sequence, rather than just pdflatex. Regards, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
