R help - Oct 2012 - LaTeX consistent publication graphics from R and Comparison of GLE and R

Hi Everyone

I am at the moment preparing my thesis and am looking at producing a few
Organigrams / Flow charts (unrelated to the calculations in R) as well as a
range of charts (barcharts, histograms, ...) based on calculations in R. 

For the Organigrams I am looking at an Opensource package called GLE at
sourceforge, which produces the text part in Latex figures which is very
neat and also in the same style of the thesis, which I wrote in LaTeX. It
also offers a range of graphical features, and I am quite tempted.

It also produces barcharts and histograms with the options of legends etc. I
have done most of my graphs so far with R, but with Organigrams and flow
charts I am at a loss (A pointer here would also be very welcome). For some
charts I have used MS Visio, but it would be convenient to use just one
program for graphing throughout the thesis (i.e. same colour coding etc.).

Does anybody have any experience with GLE, ideally working with it with CSV
tables generated within R ? Or does there exist another way to generate
'visually LaTeX consistent' graphics within R ?

Any takers ?



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On Oct 5, 2012, at 3:32 PM, clangkamp <christian.langkamp at gmxpro.de>
wrote:
> Hi Everyone
> 
> I am at the moment preparing my thesis and am looking at producing a few
> Organigrams / Flow charts (unrelated to the calculations in R) as well as a
> range of charts (barcharts, histograms, ...) based on calculations in R. 
> 
> For the Organigrams I am looking at an Opensource package called GLE at
> sourceforge, which produces the text part in Latex figures which is very
> neat and also in the same style of the thesis, which I wrote in LaTeX. It
> also offers a range of graphical features, and I am quite tempted.
> 
> It also produces barcharts and histograms with the options of legends etc.
I
> have done most of my graphs so far with R, but with Organigrams and flow
> charts I am at a loss (A pointer here would also be very welcome). For some
> charts I have used MS Visio, but it would be convenient to use just one
> program for graphing throughout the thesis (i.e. same colour coding etc.).
> 
> Does anybody have any experience with GLE, ideally working with it with CSV
> tables generated within R ? Or does there exist another way to generate
> 'visually LaTeX consistent' graphics within R ?
> 
> Any takers ?


If you are comfortable in LaTeX, I would suggest that you look at PSTricks:

  http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi

I use that for creating subject disposition flow charts for clinical trials with
Sweave. I can then use \Sexpr{}'s to fill in various annotations in the
boxes, etc. so that all content is programmatically created in a reproducible
fashion.

There are some examples of flow charts and tree diagrams here:

  http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=pst-node/psmatrix/psmatrix#flowchart

and there are various other online resources for using PSTricks.

Keep in mind that since this is PostScript based, you need to use a latex +
dvips + ps2pdf sequence, rather than just pdflatex.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz