Scionforbai wrote: >> Is there a reason you are going through this route to get figures >> into LaTeX instead of using postscript (or PDF for pdflatex)? > > To have LaTeX-formatted text printed onto your pdf figures, to include > in LaTeX documents. > > R cannot output 'special' text in xfig. You need to post-process the > .fig file, according to the fig format > (http://www.xfig.org/userman/fig-format.html), replacing, on lines > starting with '4', the correct values for font and font_flags. Using > awk (assuming you work on Linux) this is straightforward : > > awk '$1==4{$6=0;$9=2}{print}' R_FILE.fig > OUT.fig > > Then, in order to obtain a pdf figure with LaTeX-formatted text, you > need a simple driver.tex: > > driver.tex : > > \documentclass{article} > \usepackage{epsfig} > \usepackage{color} %(note: you might not might not need to do this) > \begin{document} > \pagestyle{empty} > \input{FILE.pstex_t} > \end{document} > > Now you can go through the compilation: > > fig2dev -L pstex OUT.fig > OUT.pstex > fig2dev -L pstex_t -p OUT.pstex OUT.fig > OUT.pstex_t > sed s/FILE/"OUT"/ driver.tex > ./OUT.tex > latex OUT.tex > dvips -E OUT.dvi -o OUT.eps > epstopdf OUT.eps > > Of course you need R to write the correct Latex math strings (like > $\sigma^2$). > Hope this helps, > > scionforbai >
I asked because I have found the plotmath capabilities in R to be sufficient for LaTeXish text on plots. Then there are no intermediate steps. It didn't seem that from the OP that anything incredibly complex was being attempted. -- Kevin E. Thorpe Biostatistician/Trialist, Knowledge Translation Program Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 416.864.5776 Fax: 416.864.6057 ______________________________________________ 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.