tikzDevice-package {tikzDevice}R Documentation

Support for native LaTeX output of R graphics

Description

This package implements the tikz device which allows for the output of R graphics to be saved in a LaTeX friendly format. All text in a graphic be typeset by LaTeX and therefore will match whatever fonts are currently used in the document. This also means that LaTeX mathematics can be typeset directly into labels and annotations

Details

Package: tikzDevice
Type: Package
Version: 0.35
Date: 2009-07-16
License: GPL 2.0 or greater
LazyLoad: yes

Author(s)

Cameron Bracken: cameron.bracken@gmail.com

Charlie Sharpsteen: source@sharpsteen.net

Submit bug reports to: tikzdevice-bugs@lists.r-forge.r-project.org

References

The TikZ and PGF Packages: Manual for version 2.00
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgf
Till Tanatu, February 20, 2008

See Also

tikz

Examples

## Not run: 
td <- tempdir()
tf <- file.path(td,'example.tex')
oldwd <- getwd()
setwd(td)

tikz(tf,standAlone=T)
        plot(-2:2, -2:2, type = "n", axes=F, 
                        xlab='', ylab='', main='TikZ Device Example')
    text(x,y,paste('\\Large$\\',syms,'$',sep=''))
dev.off()
tools::texi2dvi(tf,pdf=T)
system(paste(getOption('pdfviewer'),file.path(td,'example.pdf')))
setwd(oldwd)
## End(Not run)

[Package tikzDevice version 0.4.8 Index]