The main goal is to include graphics from R in a LaTeX document. Thanks a lot for all your help - its working now.
/Robert On 16 Maj, 17:31, "Greg Snow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the main goal is to include graphs created by R in LaTeX documents and > have them look nice, and usingxfigwas just one way of attempting this, then > here are a couple other options that may or may not work better. > > Use the postscript graphics device and use psfrag in LaTeX to replace text in > plot with LaTeX commands. This is fine if you are using postscript and only > have a couple of things that need to be replaced. This can be a pain if you > want to replace every tick mark label with the current font in the document, > or if you want to go directly to pdf without going through postscript. > > Generate pdf/eps files of the graphs using the same font as your LaTeX > document (see R-news article (6)2 41-47, on ways to specify the font). This > changes the font to match, but does not do arbitrary LaTeX commands. > > Create an eps file, then use eps2pgf > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/eps2pgf/) to convert to a pgf file to be > included in your LaTeX file (via \input{}). You need to use the pgf package > in your LaTeX file, but then all the graphics are done internally using by > default the same fonts as the rest of the document. You can also do psfrag > like replacements when converting the file to include LaTeX commands. > > Hope this helps, > > -- > Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. > Statistical Data Center > Intermountain Healthcare > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (801) 408-8111 > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scionforbai > > Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 6:57 AM > > To: Kevin E. Thorpe > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Robert > > Subject: Re: [R] Font settings inxfig > > > > Is there a reason you are going through this route to get > > figures into > > > LaTeX instead of using postscript (or PDF for pdflatex)? > > > To have LaTeX-formatted text printed onto your pdf figures, > > to include in LaTeX documents. > > > R cannot output 'special' text inxfig. You need to > > post-process the .fig file, according to the fig format > > (http://www.xfig.org/userman/fig-format.html), replacing, on > > lines starting with '4', the correct values for font and > > font_flags. Using awk (assuming you work on Linux) this is > > straightforward : > > > awk '$1==4{$6=0;$9=2}{print}' R_FILE.fig > OUT.fig > > > Then, in order to obtain a pdf figure with LaTeX-formatted > > text, you need a simple driver.tex: > > > driver.tex : > > > \documentclass{article} > > \usepackage{epsfig} > > \usepackage{color} %(note: you might not might not need to do > > this) \begin{document} \pagestyle{empty} \input{FILE.pstex_t} > > \end{document} > > > Now you can go through the compilation: > > > fig2dev -L pstex OUT.fig > OUT.pstex > > fig2dev -L pstex_t -p OUT.pstex OUT.fig > OUT.pstex_t sed > > s/FILE/"OUT"/ driver.tex > ./OUT.tex latex OUT.tex dvips -E > > OUT.dvi -o OUT.eps epstopdf OUT.eps > > > Of course you need R to write the correct Latex math strings > > (like $\sigma^2$). > > Hope this helps, > > > scionforbai > > > ______________________________________________ > > [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 listhttps://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ 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.
