[R] plots and text to the same output file

[Michael Bibo]

Greg Snow <Greg.Snow <at> imail.org> writes:

> 
> odfWeave works just fine for me on windows and the XML package shows up in 
my list of packages.  You may be
> overthinking the problem, for most of my odfWeave projects I don't need 
odfInsertPlot, just use fig=TRUE
> in the code chunk and only include the code for that 1 plot in that code 
chunk (a separate chunk for each plot)
> and the inclusion of the plot is taken care of for you (you can do fancier 
things with odfInsertPlot, but
> probably don't need to most of the time).
> 
> Another alternative for creating postscript (which can be converted to pdf 
if that is preferred), but
> which is much less sophisticated than sweave/odfWeave is to look at the 
etxtStart function in the
> TeachingDemos package (this requires postprocessing with enscript).  This 
approach is more for getting
> a transcript of an interactive session, for planned analyses use 
sweave/odfWeave instead.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 

See also package hwriter, for creating HTML output files which can be further 
edited, even with MSWord if you work with others in an MSOffice environment.

Michal Bibo