I don't always use rmarkdown to write papers either, but you can capture figures from it. I avoid hand editing figures like the plague of irreproducibility. But sometimes you get stuck in an approach... I cannot answer your original post, but wanted to point out that it may not actually be necessary to answer it if you change your approach.
On September 6, 2021 7:29:34 AM PDT, Ivan Calandra <calan...@rgzm.de> wrote: >Thank you Jeff for your answer. > >I do use rmarkdown but I do not write papers completely with it. I do >output a report in HTML but I also like to export the plots as PDF so >that I can edit them (using Inkscape or similar) if and as needed. >And because I like to have both the HTML report including plots and >extra plots as PDF, I cannot use pdf(). That's why I use ggsave(). > >Or am I missing something? > >Ivan > >-- >Dr. Ivan Calandra >Imaging lab >RGZM - MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre >Schloss Monrepos >56567 Neuwied, Germany >+49 (0) 2631 9772-243 >https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Calandra > >On 06/09/2021 16:24, Jeff Newmiller wrote: >> I use an rmarkdown file to generate consistent output figures and tables for >> html or Word. I just use Rnw files directly if I am generating LaTeX. I do >> not use R files for building output... and I never use ggsave. So you might >> consider altering your approach to bypass the question entirely. >> >> On September 6, 2021 7:03:46 AM PDT, Ivan Calandra <calan...@rgzm.de> wrote: >>> Dear useRs, >>> >>> I produce several independent ggplot2 plots and I would like to save >>> them to a fixed width (for publications), but the height (and therefore >>> aspect ratio) is different from plot to plot. >>> >>> How can I save my plots with ggsave() supplying only a fixed width but >>> without knowing the height nor the aspect ratio? If I specify the width >>> only, the plots are truncated in width because the aspect ratio is not >>> correct. >>> >>> Thank you for the tip! >>> Ivan >>> -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.