R help - Mar 2009 - including tabular information with a plot in R Graphics

Hi all,
I have a presentation problem that I cannot find a solution to in the
documetnation.
I have a nice barplot. Below this I would also like a table with some
information relating to the plot.
My idea was to have the plot and table on the same graphics window so I can
output them as an image file for a report.

Does anybody know how to include tabular information from a dataset or table
into the graphics device?
Is there a better/more correct way to output tables and graphics to a single
file?

Thanks very much,
Richie

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Hi Richie,
have a look at textplot() from the gplots-package.
hope, it helps!

R User R User schrieb:
> Hi all,
> I have a presentation problem that I cannot find a solution to in the
> documetnation.
> I have a nice barplot. Below this I would also like a table with some
> information relating to the plot.
> My idea was to have the plot and table on the same graphics window so I can
> output them as an image file for a report.
>
> Does anybody know how to include tabular information from a dataset or
table
> into the graphics device?
> Is there a better/more correct way to output tables and graphics to a
single
> file?
>
> Thanks very much,
> Richie
>
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R User R User wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a presentation problem that I cannot find a solution to in the
> documetnation.
> I have a nice barplot. Below this I would also like a table with some
> information relating to the plot.
> My idea was to have the plot and table on the same graphics window so I can
> output them as an image file for a report.
> 
> Does anybody know how to include tabular information from a dataset or
table
> into the graphics device?
> Is there a better/more correct way to output tables and graphics to a
single
> file?
> 
> Thanks very much,
> Richie
The most general approach I've found is to use LaTeX, pre-processing the 
graphic to insert a table, creating a new ps or pdf file at a desired 
marker symbol you have put into the graphic.  Details especially for 
Linux users are at http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/PsFrag.  If using 
Windows and you are comfortable installing and using Perl, the 
instructions are also helpful.

Frank


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                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University

Also see the addtable2plot in the plotrix package.

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Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
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> 
> Hi all,
> I have a presentation problem that I cannot find a solution to in the
> documetnation.
> I have a nice barplot. Below this I would also like a table with some
> information relating to the plot.
> My idea was to have the plot and table on the same graphics window so I
> can
> output them as an image file for a report.
> 
> Does anybody know how to include tabular information from a dataset or
> table
> into the graphics device?
> Is there a better/more correct way to output tables and graphics to a
> single
> file?
> 
> Thanks very much,
> Richie
> 
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> 
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list
> 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.

R User R User wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a presentation problem that I cannot find a solution to in the
> documetnation.
> I have a nice barplot. Below this I would also like a table with some
> information relating to the plot.
> My idea was to have the plot and table on the same graphics window so I can
> output them as an image file for a report.
>
> Does anybody know how to include tabular information from a dataset or
table
> into the graphics device?
> Is there a better/more correct way to output tables and graphics to a
single
> file?
>
>   
Hi Richie,
You can add a table to a plot with "addtable2plot" in the plotrix 
package, as well as the other suggestions already offered. This places a 
table on the plot itself. If you want to mix plots and tables in an 
output listing, the prettyR package includes "htmlize" and
"R2html" to
convert the output of a script into HTML, and "delim.table" that can
put
HTML tables into the same file.

Jim