[R] Inserting an image into a PDF file

[Paul Murrell]

Hi


On 12/07/2010 4:33 a.m., Marc Schwartz wrote:
> On Jul 11, 2010, at 10:51 AM, David Winsemius wrote:
>
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>> On Jul 11, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Dennis Fisher wrote:
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>>> Colleagues,
>>>
>>> I am creating a PDF document from R using pdf(), the document contains text / images created with R.  I also have an image in either PDF / TIFF / JPEG format (in this case, a scanned image saved as a file).
>>>
>>> I would like to insert the image into the PDF file.  Any ideas on how to accomplish this?
>>
>> http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~paul/Talks/import.pdf
>>
>>>
>>> (OS X, R 2.11.1)
>
>
>
> Just to offer an additional option since Dennis is on OSX, if you are on 10.6.x (Snow Leopard), you can view this YouTube video:
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>    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF_WgXAfMP0
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> which describes how to combine/insert pages from multiple document types that OSX' Preview can open.
>
> If you are on Leopard (10.5.x), the drag and drop behavior, as noted in the above video, is somewhat different and you may wish to view this page:
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>    http://macintoshhowto.com/leopard/how-to-merge-pdf-files-with-preview-in-leopard.html
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> This presumes that you want the scanned image on a separate page, rather than combined on the same page as your pdf() output. Since PDF is a native format on OSX, you can take advantage of built-in functionality to manipulate these files.
>
> Of course using Sweave is yet another option.

Also see the new rasterImage() and grid.raster() functions in R 2.11.*

Paul

> HTH,
>
> Marc Schwartz
>
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