R: A PicTeX Graphics Driver

pictex {grDevices} | R Documentation

## A PicTeX Graphics Driver

### Description

This function produces graphics suitable for inclusion in TeX and LaTeX documents.

### Usage

    pictex(file = "Rplots.tex", width = 5, height = 4, debug = FALSE,
           bg = "white", fg = "black")

### Arguments

`file` | the file where output will appear.
`width` | The width of the plot in inches.
`height` | the height of the plot in inches.
`debug` | should debugging information be printed.
`bg` | the background color for the plot. Ignored.
`fg` | the foreground color for the plot. Ignored.

### Details

This driver does not have any font metric information, so the use of `plotmath` is not supported.

Multiple plots will be placed as separate environments in the output file.

Line widths are ignored except when setting the spacing of line textures. `pch="."` corresponds to a square of side 1pt.

This device does not support colour (nor does the PicTeX package), and all colour settings are ignored.

### Author(s)

This driver was provided by Valerio Aimale valerio@svpop.com.dist.unige.it of the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Italy.

### References

Knuth, D. E. (1984) The TeXbook. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Lamport, L. (1994) LATEX: A Document Preparation System. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Goossens, M., Mittelbach, F. and Samarin, A. (1994) The LATEX Companion. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

### See Also

`postscript`, `Devices`.

### Examples

    pictex()
    plot(1:11,(-5:5)^2, type='b', main="Simple Example Plot")
    dev.off()
    ##--------------------
    ## Not run:
    %% LaTeX Example
    \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{pictex}
    \begin{document}
    %...
    \begin{figure}[h]
      \centerline{\input{Rplots.tex}}
      \caption{}
    \end{figure}
    %...
    \end{document}

    %%-- plain TeX Example --
    \input pictex
    $$ \input Rplots.tex $$
    ## End(Not run)
    ##--------------------
    unlink("Rplots.tex")

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