[R] function in order to plot the same graph to postscript and pdf

Achim Zeileis Achim.Zeileis at wu-wien.ac.at
Wed Mar 9 15:41:25 CET 2005


On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 15:24:48 +0100 Ronny Klein wrote:

> > What are the myplot objects? Expressions or graphical objects that
> > are printed?
> 
> The myplot is something like this:
> 
> plot(x)
> text(foo)

Aha, I was surprised that this worked for one of the two plots.
You could pass myplot as an expression, e.g. myplot =
expression(plot(x)), and then eval() that in the body of plot.both(). 

But personally, I wouldn't do that :-) and use Sweave instead.
Z

> etc.
> 
> > In any case, a good recommendation for this kind of stuff is to look
> > at Sweave() in the utils package. I guess you're writing your thesis
> > in LaTeX...and Sweave is a great possibility to mix LaTeX code and R
> > code which for example generates both pdf and eps graphics.
> 
> Thanks, I will have a look on it.
> 
> Ronny
>




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