> > Is there an easy way to include larger amounts of text in a plot? > I need to include a text report in a pdf file that is automtically > created by a R script. > > I open a pdf device, then create several plots which are nicely output > each on a page in > the resulting pdf file, then I want to append page(s) that > contain only > text. > > The best I came up with is the following: > > # create a new page > frame() > # setup some dummy coordinate system > plot.window(c(0,10),c(0,10)) > # read the report as whole file (vector of lines) > f <- readLines(filename) > # concatenate the first 50 lines into on string with lines > separated by > \n newline > t <- paste(f[1:50], collapse="\n") > # output text > text(0, 5, t, pos=4, cex=0.8, xpd=NA) > > The problem is that the text is always centered in some way > (with pos = > 4 vertically, > and I cant easily put it into several pages. > > Is there an easier way to do this that I overlooked? > > For automation reasons I would like to have R output the text directly > into the pdf.
Have you considered Sweave()? There is also a nice and well written tutorial by Friedrich Leisch in R News: Friedrich Leisch. Sweave, part I: Mixing R and LATEX. R News, 2(3):28-31, December 2002 Friedrich Leisch. Sweave, part II: Package vignettes. R News, 3(2):21-24, October 2003 as well as the referenced URLs within this tutorial. HTH, Bernhard > > Thanks in advance > > Michael > > > ********************************************************************** > Der Inhalt dieser E-Mail ist vertraulich und ausschliesslich > fuer den bezeichneten Adressaten bestimmt. Wenn Sie nicht der > vorgesehene Adressat dieser E-Mail oder dessen Vertreter sein > sollten, so beachten Sie bitte, dass jede Form der > Kenntnisnahme, Veroeffentlichung, Vervielfaeltigung oder > Weitergabe des Inhalts dieser E-Mail unzulaessig ist. Wir > bitten Sie, sich in diesem Fall mit dem Absender der E-Mail > in Verbindung zu setzen. > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained herein is confidential and is inte...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
