[R] One pdf file with plots and text output

[ONKELINX, Thierry]

I use Sweave for this kind of purposes.

HTH,

Thierry

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> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: r-help-bounces op r-project.org 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces op r-project.org] 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.
> 
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