He clearly stated he was using the pdf() graphics device. On December 2, 2023 10:36:44 AM PST, Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's still not entirely clear to me what framework you're using to generate > the PDF, but if it's rmarkdown/Rnw (Sweave)/Quarto-based, then as far as I > know all of those frameworks use LaTeX as the last step in the script-to-PDF > pipeline, and allow the inclusion of arbitrary LaTeX code, so the 'lastpage' > package would do this for you: > >https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70343001/how-to-show-the-total-number-of-pages-in-a-pdf-via-the-rmarkdown-i-e-display > >https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/227/how-can-i-add-page-of-on-my-document > > > >On 2023-12-02 12:23 p.m., Ebert,Timothy Aaron wrote: >> Would this work in general? Say I have a document with figures, special >> equations, text, and tables. The text and tables are relatively easy. The >> figures would need a conversion from pixels to lines, and the equations >> maybe printed out, counted as a figure, and then added to the line count. It >> would also be tricky if a title line was at 32 point font and the text at >> 12, and the more complex the formatting the harder to deal with rows as >> related to page size. >> >> Thankfully I do not think I will have to do this, so the question is for >> theoretical interest on my part (at least for now). >> >> Tim >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: R-help <r-help-boun...@r-project.org> On Behalf Of Jeff Newmiller via >> R-help >> Sent: Saturday, December 2, 2023 11:46 AM >> To: r-help@r-project.org >> Subject: Re: [R] adding "Page X of XX" to PDFs >> >> [External Email] >> >> One of the most fundamental characteristics of R programming is the use of >> data frames of column vectors, and one of the very first challenges I had as >> a then-Perl-programmer was coming to grips with the fact that unknown-length >> CSV files would be read completely into memory as rows and once the entire >> CSV was in memory it would be transposed into column vectors. I was >> resistant to this philosophy at first, but the advantages in computation >> speed and simplicity eventually won me over. >> >> I would say that if you want to know how many pages you are going to produce >> with R, then you are going to have to count them before you create them. >> Building a dataframe that describes (in terms of parameters to be passed to >> a page-generating function in each row) what you are going to put on each >> page before you actually print it can make this pre-counting problem >> trivial, and the code that does the printing is likely to be more modular >> and testable as well. >> >> On December 1, 2023 12:53:25 PM PST, Dennis Fisher <fis...@plessthan.com> >> wrote: >>> OS X >>> R 4.3.1 >>> >>> Colleagues >>> >>> I often create multipage PDFs [pdf()] in which the text "Page X" appears in >>> the margin. These PDFs are created automatically using a massive R script. >>> >>> One of my clients requested that I change this to: >>> Page X of XX >>> where XX is the total number of pages. >>> >>> I don't know the number of expected pages so I can't think of any clever >>> way to do this. I suppose that I could create the PDF, find out the number >>> of pages, then have a second pass in which the R script was fed the number >>> of pages. However, there is one disadvantage to this -- the original PDF >>> contains a timestamp on each page -- the new version would have a different >>> timestamp -- so I would prefer to not use this approach. >>> >>> Has anyone thought of some terribly clever way to solve this problem? >>> >>> Dennis >>> >>> Dennis Fisher MD >>> P < (The "P Less Than" Company) >>> Phone / Fax: 1-866-PLessThan (1-866-753-7784) >>> http://www.plessthan.com/ >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>> 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. >> >> -- >> Sent from my phone. 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