Re: [R] Include externally generated pdf in output (without Sweave)

2010-10-04 Thread Greg Snow
Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- project.org] On Behalf Of Dieter Menne Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 7:39 AM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Include externally generated

[R] Include externally generated pdf in output (without Sweave)

2010-10-03 Thread Dieter Menne
Dear useRs, I generated a simple image-based report using the sequence: pdf() plot(.) textplot( for short texts, from gplots) dev.off() Is there an easy way to include an single pdf-page from an external file (not R generated). Note: For final reports, I know how to use Sweave, but I

Re: [R] Include externally generated pdf in output (without Sweave)

2010-10-03 Thread Tal Galili
Hello Dieter, Looking at this thread (from 2005) http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/05/10/14320.html It seems you can't read a pdf file to R (at least then, I hope there was an update since). BUT You could potentially read an image file (like, for example, tiff) using something like

Re: [R] Include externally generated pdf in output (without Sweave)

2010-10-03 Thread baptiste auguie
Hi, Check the grImport package (I think it has a vignette, perhaps on Paul Murrell's homepage.) HTH, baptiste On 3 October 2010 14:52, Tal Galili tal.gal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Dieter, Looking at this thread (from 2005) http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/05/10/14320.html It seems

Re: [R] Include externally generated pdf in output (without Sweave)

2010-10-03 Thread Dieter Menne
Tal Galili wrote: You could potentially read an image file (like, for example, tiff) using something like read.picture {SoPhy} Thanks to you and Baptiste Auguie. Looks like the best way would be to import the picture as a pixel graphics with read.picture. It might be possible to read ps