Hi Marc, It would be interesting to compare with tikz for ease of use.
As an aside I've been wishing that someone would write an R function for creating clinical trial disposition charts using tikz or pstricks ... Best, Frank Marc Schwartz-3 wrote > On Oct 5, 2012, at 3:32 PM, clangkamp < > christian.langkamp@ > > 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 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@ > 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. ----- Frank Harrell Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/LaTeX-consistent-publication-graphics-from-R-and-Comparison-of-GLE-and-R-tp4645218p4645269.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.