pictex
A PicTeX Graphics Driver
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.
- Keywords
- device
Usage
pictex(file = "Rplots.tex", width = 5, height = 4, debug = FALSE,
bg = "white", fg = "black")Arguments
- 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.
Details
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.
Conventions
This section describes the implementation of the conventions for graphics devices set out in the “R Internals Manual”.
The default device size is 5 inches by 4 inches.
There is no
pointsizeargument: the default size is interpreted as 10 point.The only font family is
cmss10.Line widths are only used when setting the spacing on line textures.
Circle of any radius are allowed.
Colour is not supported.
References
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.
See Also
postscript, pdf, Devices.
The tikzDevice in the CRAN package of that name for more modern
TeX-based graphics (http://pgf.sourceforge.net/, although
including PDF figures via pdftex is most common
in (La)TeX documents).
Examples
library(grDevices)
# NOT RUN {
require(graphics)
# }
# NOT RUN {
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}
# }
# NOT RUN {
##--------------------
unlink("Rplots.tex")
# }