R help - Feb 2009 - plots and text to the same output file

Hello,
I would like to save different plots and some text (like summaries, AIC, ...) on
the same file.
I've read the e-mails entitled "Output results to a single postscript
document" written some days ago and I've tried
to use the function odfInsertPlot() in the package "odfWeave" but it
doesn't work on my computer (I've seen that
odfWeave package depends on XML package, which is not available for windows...)
Does somebody know if there is another function or package that could help? I
would need at least to put all the
plots on the same file
... of course I could copy and paste them by hand but there are tens of
graphs... :-(

Thanks!!
Laura

odfWeave works just fine for me on windows and the XML package shows up in my
list of packages.  You may be overthinking the problem, for most of my odfWeave
projects I don't need odfInsertPlot, just use fig=TRUE in the code chunk and
only include the code for that 1 plot in that code chunk (a separate chunk for
each plot) and the inclusion of the plot is taken care of for you (you can do
fancier things with odfInsertPlot, but probably don't need to most of the
time).

Another alternative for creating postscript (which can be converted to pdf if
that is preferred), but which is much less sophisticated than sweave/odfWeave is
to look at the etxtStart function in the TeachingDemos package (this requires
postprocessing with enscript).  This approach is more for getting a transcript
of an interactive session, for planned analyses use sweave/odfWeave instead.

Hope this helps,


-- 
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111

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> Hello,
> I would like to save different plots and some text (like summaries,
> AIC, ...) on the same file.
> I've read the e-mails entitled "Output results to a single
postscript
> document" written some days ago and I've tried
> to use the function odfInsertPlot() in the package "odfWeave" but
it
> doesn't work on my computer (I've seen that
> odfWeave package depends on XML package, which is not available for
> windows...)
> Does somebody know if there is another function or package that could
> help? I would need at least to put all the
> plots on the same file
> ... of course I could copy and paste them by hand but there are tens of
> graphs... :-(
> 
> Thanks!!
> Laura
> 
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lauramorgana at bluewin.ch wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to save different plots and some text (like summaries, AIC,
...) on the same file.
> I've read the e-mails entitled "Output results to a single
postscript document" written some days ago and I've tried
> to use the function odfInsertPlot() in the package "odfWeave" but
it doesn't work on my computer (I've seen that
> odfWeave package depends on XML package, which is not available for
windows...)
> Does somebody know if there is another function or package that could help?
I would need at least to put all the
> plots on the same file
> ... of course I could copy and paste them by hand but there are tens of
graphs...
Hi Laura,
Both the R2HTML package and the htmlize and R2html functions in the 
prettyR package enable saving the output of a session in an HTML file 
(with associated image files). The latter two functions are particularly 
easy if you already have a running script and want to get the output in 
an easily viewable format. The advantage of HTML is that it can be 
displayed by "any damn browser".

Jim