pictex {grDevices} | R Documentation |
This function produces simple graphics suitable for inclusion in TeX and LaTeX documents. It dates from the very early days of R and is for historical interest only.
pictex(file = "Rplots.tex", width = 5, height = 4, debug = FALSE, bg = "white", fg = "black")
file |
the file where output will appear. |
width |
The width of the plot in inches. |
height |
the height of the plot in inches. |
debug |
should debugging information be printed. |
bg |
the background color for the plot. Ignored. |
fg |
the foreground color for the plot. Ignored. |
This driver is much more basic than the other graphics drivers
included in R. It does not have any font metric information, so the
use of plotmath
is not supported.
Line widths are ignored except when setting the spacing of line textures.
pch="."
corresponds to a square of side 1pt.
This device does not support colour (nor does the PicTeX package), and all colour settings are ignored.
Note that text is recorded in the file as-is, so annotations involving TeX special characters (such as ampersand and underscore) need to be quoted as they would be when entering TeX.
Multiple plots will be placed as separate environments in the output file.
This section describes the implementation of the conventions for graphics devices set out in the “R Internals Manual”.
pointsize
argument: the default size is
interpreted as 10 point.
cmss10
.
This driver was provided around 1996–7 by Valerio Aimale of the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Italy.
Knuth, D. E. (1984) The TeXbook. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Lamport, L. (1994) LATEX: A Document Preparation System. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Goossens, M., Mittelbach, F. and Samarin, A. (1994) The LATEX Companion. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
postscript
, pdf
, Devices
.
The tikzDevice
in the CRAN package of that name for more modern
LaTeX-based graphics (although including PDF figures is most common in
LaTeX documents).
require(graphics) pictex() plot(1:11,(-5:5)^2, type='b', main="Simple Example Plot") dev.off() ##-------------------- ## Not run: %% LaTeX Example \documentclass{article} \usepackage{pictex} \usepackage{graphics} % for \rotatebox \begin{document} %... \begin{figure}[h] \centerline{\input{Rplots.tex}} \caption{} \end{figure} %... \end{document} ## End(Not run) ##-------------------- unlink("Rplots.tex")