On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 01:04 +0000, Jonas Stein wrote:> Hi,
>
> what is actually the best method to include R-plots into LaTeX
> documents?
> At the moment i use
>
> postscript("myplot.eps", width = 12.0, height = 9.0, horizontal
> FALSE,
> onefile = TRUE, paper = "special",encoding =
"TeXtext.enc")
> plot(foo,bar)
> dev.off()
>
> But it is a bit unhandy to scale later and its difficult to get nice
> formula in the plots.
>
> And how should i write formulas on the axis or at specific points?
> Has someone had some effort in exporting plots to pstricks or pictex?
>
> kind regards and thank you for reading so far,
As per the Details section of ?postscript:
The postscript produced for a single R plot is EPS (Encapsulated
PostScript) compatible, and can be included into other documents, e.g.,
into LaTeX, using \includegraphics{<filename>}. For use in this way you
will probably want to set horizontal = FALSE, onefile = FALSE, paper
"special". Note that the bounding box is for the device region: if you
find the white space around the plot region excessive, reduce the
margins of the figure region via par(mar=).
In your code above, change 'onefile = TRUE' to 'onefile =
FALSE'.
For scaling you can use the LaTeX \includegraphics directive along with
several height and width arguments, such as:
\includegraphics[width=4in]{myplot.eps}
\includegraphics[height=4in]{myplot.eps}
\includegraphics[scale=0.75]{myplot.eps}
\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{myplot.eps}
You might want to review the following document:
ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/epslatex.pdf
For including formulae in R plots, see ?plotmath. You can run
example(plotmath) and there are many posts in the r-help archives on
this.
Beyond the above, you may want to look into using SWeave, whereby you
can create entire documents, with nicely formatted tables and plots
directly from R code. More information here:
http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch/Sweave/
There are also a couple of articles on R News:
Friedrich Leisch. Sweave, part I: Mixing R and LATEX. R News,
2(3):28-31, December 2002.
Friedrich Leisch. Sweave, part II: Package vignettes. R News,
3(2):21-24, October 2003.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz