All you mentioned are possible; knitr has very comprehensive support to figures in LaTeX, and what you want in this case is subfigures (\usepackage{subfig}); here is an example: https://github.com/yihui/knitr-examples/blob/master/067-graphics-options.Rnw (search for 'fig.subcap' for the relevant chunk)
And here is a preview: http://i.imgur.com/4lKpw.png Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:17 AM, Francesco Sarracino <f.sarrac...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear R helpers, > > I am using knitr to run analysis with R and edit my document with Latex. I > am wondering whether there is a way to include 2 or more pictures per chunk > and being able to refer them in the text independently and eventually > whether it is possible to give them different captions. Let me give you an > example.Rnw: > > \documentclass{article} > \title{Example} > \author{FS} > \begin{document} > \maketitle > > I put some text here. I want to plot to charts in the same figure and > label them independently. > <<stat, echo = FALSE, results = 'hide'>>= > ii <- 2000:2011 > xx <- rnorm(12,0,1) > yy <- rnorm(12,0,1) > pm <- data.frame(ii,zz,yy > @ > > Now I generate the two pictures and put them into the same chunk with the > option out.width set to .49 so that knitr places the two charts side by > side: > <<fig:example, echo = FALSE, out.width=".49\\linewidth", fig.cap="this is > an example>>= > plot(ii,xx, type = "l") > plot(ii,yy, type = "l", lty = 2) > @ > > Finally, I want the reader to look at the figure on the left. > \end{document} > > How can I do this? If I refer to \ref{fig:example} I will get the number > of the figure, but of the chart on the left. > Eventually, is it possible to have separate captions for each chart? > Thanks in advance for your kind help, > f. > > > -- > Francesco Sarracino, Ph.D. > https://sites.google.com/site/fsarracino/ > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.