[R] off-topic question: Latex and R in industries

[Itay Furman]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Donald Ingram wrote:

> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 00:12:47 +0100
> From: Donald Ingram <donald_i at mac.com>
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] off-topic question: Latex and R in industries
> 
> Hi Bert and Jonathan,
>
> When I want a quality report - I write it with pdfLaTeX ( TexShop or
> TeXnicCenter)  with postscript generated diagrams and R plots as pdf's
> - ( so I can use PC / UNIX / OS X inter-changeably with no problems )
>
> The quality and readability of the pdf document is liked but, and it's
> a big but is .....
>
> When someone else in the team needs to extract quality vector graphics
> from the report, I have to give it to them in powerpoint or word
> document , which means running R again on a PC  to get WMF's.  Not
> impossible just extra work. ( Is there a universal vector format I
> could use ? )
>

I think that SVG is the answer, but it is still a moving target.
 	http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
Otherwise, it's PDF.


> However, and this is probably off topic-R, when I use drawings /
> schematics  in native postscript  from  a Unix box, using them is fine
> in LaTeX, but they can't be pasted into MS applications without first
> rasterizing.  The other option I tried  - Ghostview  seems to mess up
> line angles and fonts in attempting  conversion into WMF.  ( If anyone
> knows a way to avoid this, I will be forever grateful )
>

The TexLive distribution (search www.ctan.org) has dvipdfm, as 
well as epstopdf -- another conversion tool.

 	Itay

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