On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Earlier today I posted a problem importing an R graph into a LaTeX file of
> seminar class: specifically, the graphic was showing up rotated 180
> degrees, along with the rest of the page it was on.
>
> In a real victory for open-source software, I got lots of responses with
> three distinct approaches, each of which appears to solve the problem. Try
> getting fast, correct help from Microsoft on a Sunday morning!
>
> Here's the summary:
>
> 1.) From Brian Flaherty on the Debian list:
> Rather than what you have above, what about something along the lines
> of this:
>
> \includegraphics[scale=.5,angle=180,keepaspectratio=T]{crime.eps}
>
> and chose the scale that you wish.
>
> (I actually ended up using:
> \includegraphics[scale=.37,angle=270,keepaspectratio=T]{crime.eps}
> ), which works fine
As several people suggested, including me, setting width= or height= is
better. And keepaspectratio=T is the default unless you set both.
> 2.) From numerous helpers on the R-Help list:
> use the horizontal=FALSE argument to the postscript() command in R:
>
> postscript(..., horzontal = FALSE)
>
>
> 3.) You could try dev.copy2eps:
>
> `dev.copy2eps' is similar to `dev.print' but produces an EPSF
> output file, in portrait orientation (`horizontal = FALSE')
>
> I think you can just use this command, and follow it with
> dev.off(). Then I recall you have to rename the resulting output
> to crime.eps.
Neither. You don't need dev.off, but you do need to specify the file name
to dev.copy2eps.
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