[R] One pdf file with plots and text output

[Rainer M Krug]

ONKELINX, Thierry wrote:
> I use Sweave for this kind of purposes.

I was thinking about Sweave as well, but I don't understand how I can 
use it.

Let's say I have a source file, which defines a function

DoGrowthAll <- function()
   {
     pdf("GrowthAll.pdf", height=11, width=8, paper="a4")
     sink("GrowthAll.txt")
     try(
         {
           plot(x.lm)
           summary(xlm)
           .
           .
           .
         }
         )
     sink()
     dev.off()
     system("xpdf ./GrowthAll.pdf", wait=FALSE)
   }

Now how can I use Sweave to create this report?

Rainer

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