Full_Name: Sam Version: 2.2.1, 2005-12-20 OS: i686-redhat-linux-gnu Submission from: (NULL) (209.213.205.130) running pictex() plot(1:11,(-5:5)^2, type='b', main="Simple_Example_Plot") dev.off() (as in the pictex example, but with underscores instead of spaces). the TeX file contains \put {Simple_Example_Plot} [lB] <0.00pt,0.00pt> at 124.00 275.33 the underscores have a special meaning in TeX, so they should be quoted or converted to dashes.