R help - Jun 2018 - Adding lines to the page

Hi, I'm looking for a way to add lines to a report. To be clear, I don't
want to add lines to any specific plot, but instead to add line(s) to the page
itself - e.g. add a line to the footer area, above the actual footer text.

Any thoughts on how to do this? Many thanks.

That would depend how you are generating the page... plots alone don't
really have such options. If you don't know what this means then I suggest
you read the Reproducible Research Task View [1]. knitr in conjunction with
LaTeX (Rnw files) is very powerful, but there are many other tools as well (e.g.
bookdown) depending on your preferences.

[1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ReproducibleResearch.html

On June 27, 2018 1:53:58 PM PDT, Stats Student <stats.student4647 at
gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi, I'm looking for a way to add lines to a report. To be clear, I
>don't want to add lines to any specific plot, but instead to add
>line(s) to the page itself - e.g. add a line to the footer area, above
>the actual footer text. 
>
>Any thoughts on how to do this? Many thanks.
>
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>and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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Thanks, Jeff. The Task View page was very informative.

To answer your question, I'm using ggplot to generate my plots and
grid/gridExtra/gtable to place those plots on a page.

Considering that there are ways to add text on a page through textGrobs,
independent of the plots, I was wondering if there was a similar functionality
for adding lines. Also noticed a package called pagenum for adding page numbers.

knitr is certainly interesting, but might be an overkill for what I am trying to
do (creating basic multipage reports with basic headers, footers).




On Jun 27, 2018, 2:07 PM, at 2:07 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at
dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
>That would depend how you are generating the page... plots alone don't
>really have such options. If you don't know what this means then I
>suggest you read the Reproducible Research Task View [1]. knitr in
>conjunction with LaTeX (Rnw files) is very powerful, but there are many
>other tools as well (e.g. bookdown) depending on your preferences.
>
>[1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ReproducibleResearch.html
>
>On June 27, 2018 1:53:58 PM PDT, Stats Student
><stats.student4647 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Hi, I'm looking for a way to add lines to a report. To be clear, I
>>don't want to add lines to any specific plot, but instead to add
>>line(s) to the page itself - e.g. add a line to the footer area, above
>>the actual footer text. 
>>
>>Any thoughts on how to do this? Many thanks.
>>
>>______________________________________________
>>R-help at 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.
>
>-- 
>Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.