Philippe Grosjean wrote: > > > ..I would be happy to receive your comments and suggestions to improve > this document. > All the best, > > PhG > >
LaTeX is my personal tool of choice and the vector format I use most often is http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf/ PGF (Portable Graphics Format), implemented via a LaTeX package written by Till Tantu. There exists a very nice converter called http://sourceforge.net/projects/eps2pgf/ eps2pgf which is written in java and does an excellent job of translating R eps output. The primary advantage of PGF is that figure text gets typeset by the LaTeX engine instead of by R which unifies font choices and gives the final document a very consistent, professional look. LaTeX commands, such as mathematical typesetting, can also be embedded in the figure. Along with a friend of mine, I have been working on a R package that extends Sweave to include pgf graphics output. Currently http://www.rforge.net/pgfSweave pgfSweave uses eps2pgf to perform the conversions but a native R graphics device is planned to help speed up the process. The package is currently very much a beta and has been developed and tested on Mac OS X and runs quite well. Limited testing has been conducted on Linux and Windows and we have produced documents on those systems. Heavy development is expected to take place this summer. PGF is a human-readable format and can be be easily annotated by adding additional commands to the resulting file. However, editing the original content is possible but difficult due to the lack of structure in the eps2pgf output. The LaTeX environment can even be switched from pgfpicture to tikzpicture which allows the use of TiKZ- a high level graphics language built on top of PGF. TiKZ/PGF is easy to learn and the manual is one of the best pieces of software documentation I have seen. Since I came across PGF a couple of years ago, Adobe Illustrator has languished unused on my hard drive except for the occasional application of Live Trace. An excellent showcase of PGF/TiKZ examples along with additional tools is hosted at http://www.texample.net Texample . The end result of the PGF/TiKZ build process is a PDF which makes it very portable. All the best! -Charlie ----- Charlie Sharpsteen Undergraduate Environmental Resources Engineering Humboldt State University -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cross-platforms-solution-to-export-R-graphs-tp22970668p23016682.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@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.