R help - Sep 2007 - Graphics and LaTeX documents with the same font

Dear All,

I know how to export graphics as pdf files and then how to include
them in LaTeX documents. However, I do not know how to do in order to
have the text of the graphics written with the font selected for the
LaTeX document. Is that possible?

Thanks in advance,

Paul

Paul Smith schrieb:
> Dear All,
>
> I know how to export graphics as pdf files and then how to include
> them in LaTeX documents. However, I do not know how to do in order to
> have the text of the graphics written with the font selected for the
> LaTeX document. Is that possible?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul
>
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Hi Paul,

maybe you will find the psfrag package useful.

Dietrich

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On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I know how to export graphics as pdf files and then how to include
> them in LaTeX documents. However, I do not know how to do in order to
> have the text of the graphics written with the font selected for the
> LaTeX document. Is that possible?
Well, it depends on what that font is.  But if it is TeX font,
see the section called 'TeX fonts' in ?postscript and the detailed 
description in the article in R-news 6/2 by Paul Murrell and myself.

If it is an Adobe Type1 font such as Times New Roman, just specify an 
appropriate family in the pdf() call.

Dietrich Trenkler wrote:
> maybe you will find the psfrag package useful.
I doubt it will be even usable with PDF (there are pdfrack and Xfigfrag, 
though), and with postscript it is at best a kludge as R does its own 
micro-positioning of text based on the font metrics.

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On 9/28/07, hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > Yes there is harm.  But to make bold lines, easy to read titles is
fine.
> >   See the spar function in
> > http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/SgraphicsHints for a starter.  Also
see
> > the setps, ps.slide, and setpdf functions in the Hmisc package.
>
> I was interested to see that you have code for drawing scatterplots
> with multiple y-axes.  As far as I know the only legitimate use for a
> double-axis plot is to confuse or mislead the reader (and this is not
> a very ethical use case).  Perhaps you have a counter-example?
Eh... How about all cases where you plot against one variable but want
to show it in different units, e.g. temperature in degrees of
Celsius/Centigrades on one and degrees on Fahrenheit on the other?  I
would say that is a case where you rather want to help the reader, not
mislead her/him.

-Henrik

>
> Hadley
>
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I find them helpful for displaying the differences in coupled biomarkers
between therapies with different therapeutic targets.  You can quickly
see/show which marker is affected quicker and then the other compensating in
response and how they can be reversed depending on target. Having each
measure on its own actual scale and not having to do something like percent
change over time is very helpful (for many biomarkers it's hard to judge the
clinical relavence of scaled values).  

I believe in looking at the data in numerous ways, to help myself from
confusing or misleading myself--which is not my intent.

--Matt Austin
Statistician, Amgen Inc.

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Behalf Of hadley wickham
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 10:14 AM
To: Frank E Harrell Jr
Cc: R-help
Subject: Re: [R] Graphics and LaTeX documents with the same font
> Yes there is harm.  But to make bold lines, easy to read titles is fine.
>   See the spar function in
> http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/SgraphicsHints for a starter.  Also see
> the setps, ps.slide, and setpdf functions in the Hmisc package.
I was interested to see that you have code for drawing scatterplots
with multiple y-axes.  As far as I know the only legitimate use for a
double-axis plot is to confuse or mislead the reader (and this is not
a very ethical use case).  Perhaps you have a counter-example?

Hadley

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hadley wickham wrote:
>> Yes there is harm.  But to make bold lines, easy to read titles is
fine.
>>   See the spar function in
>> http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/SgraphicsHints for a starter.  Also
see
>> the setps, ps.slide, and setpdf functions in the Hmisc package.
> 
> I was interested to see that you have code for drawing scatterplots
> with multiple y-axes.  As far as I know the only legitimate use for a
> double-axis plot is to confuse or mislead the reader (and this is not
> a very ethical use case).  Perhaps you have a counter-example?
> 
> Hadley
> 
Generally I share your dislike of those, and prefer multiple panels with 
different scales.

Cheers
Frank

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                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 12:13:46PM -0500, hadley wickham
wrote:
> > Yes there is harm.  But to make bold lines, easy to read titles is
fine.
> >   See the spar function in
> > http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/SgraphicsHints for a starter.  Also
see
> > the setps, ps.slide, and setpdf functions in the Hmisc package.
> 
> I was interested to see that you have code for drawing scatterplots
> with multiple y-axes.  As far as I know the only legitimate use for a
> double-axis plot is to confuse or mislead the reader (and this is not
> a very ethical use case).  Perhaps you have a counter-example?
> 
> Hadley
It can be useful to see multiple timeseries on the same x (time) scale
but with different y scales for each to see if there are time-lag
correlations between different quantities


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