[R] Lattice .ps graphic is rotated in LaTeX slides

[Patrick Drechsler]

Hi Michael,

Michael Friendly wrote on 01 Oct 2004 16:09:45 MET:

> I've generated a version of the classic dotplot of the barley
> data with

[sniped R-code]

> It looks fine with gv

The image is in landscape format when viewed with gv.

> \begin{slide}
> \includegraphics[,height=.6\textheight]{fig/barley2x3.ps}
                  ^^^typo or copy&paste error?
> \end{slide}
>
> the image is rotated 90 deg CCW.  I tried to adjust for this
> with
>
> \includegraphics[angle=-90,height=.6\textheight]{fig/barley2x3.ps}

Short answer: use `width' instead of `height':

  \includegraphics[angle=-90,width=.8\linewidth]{fig/barley2x3}

Long answer:

,----[ http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=divzero ]
| Graphics division by zero
| 
| While the error
| 
| ! Package graphics Error: Division by 0.
| 
| can actually be caused by offering the package a figure which
| claims to have a zero dimension, it's more commonly caused by
| rotation.
| 
| Objects in TeX may have both height (the height above the
| baseline) and depth (the distance the object goes below the
| baseline). If you rotate an object by 180 degrees, you convert
| its height into depth, and vice versa; if the object started
| with zero depth, you've converted it to a zero-height object.
| 
| Suppose you're including your graphic with a command like:
| 
| \includegraphics[angle=180,height=5cm]{myfig.eps}
| 
| In the case that myfig.eps has no depth to start with, the
| scaling calculations will produce the division-by-zero error.
| 
| Fortunately, the graphicx package has a keyword totalheight,
| which allows you to specify the size of the image relative to
| the sum of the object's height and depth, so
| 
| \includegraphics[angle=180,totalheight=5cm]{myfig.eps}
| 
| will resolve the error, and will behave as you might hope.
| 
| If you're using the simpler graphics package, use the * form of
| the \resizebox command to specify the use of totalheight:
| 
| \resizebox*{!}{5cm}{%
|   \rotatebox{180}{%
|     \includegraphics{myfig.eps}%
|   }%
| }
| 
`----

HTH

Patrick
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