Re: publication quality graphs
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 12 October 2005 at 22:01, Don Armstrong wrote:
> | I personally use R here for almost all of the publication quality
> | graphs that I need to make here.
> |
> | My basic workflow looks like the following:
> |
> | 1) data entry into gnumeric
> | 2) export to tab delineated files
> | 3) tweak .R file so that it does what I want it to do for this
> | particular dataset [I've got a set of these that I use for
> | different experiments/graph types that I use often.]
> |
> | 4) R --no-save < foo.R; to run the R file
> | 5) ps2pdf if I need to send it to people who don't have gv
>
> Why 4) and 5) ? R has a native pdf driver -- see help(pdf).
Because I often prefer ps or eps to pdf.
> And you can insert pdf charts directly into LaTeX too.
Only when you're using pdflatex.
Don Armstrong
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symptoms of insanity around me. And I'm human, the same as the poeple
I think of as victims when my guard drops. It's at least possible I'm
even crazier than my fellows, whom I'm tempted to pity.
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