Applied, Thanks -- Eric

t...@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes:

> Aloha all,
>
> The attached patch adds tikzDevice support to ob-R.  It requires that
> the tikzDevice package be available to R, so it must be installed and
> loaded.  Something like the following code in .Rprofile will load the
> package by default:
>
> old <- getOption("defaultPackages")
> options(defaultPackages = c(old, "tikzDevice"))
>
> Then, specify a .tex file in the :file header argument of the R source
> code block, e.g., :file intervals.tex, and the graphic will be produced
> by tikzDevice.
>
> The advantage of this for LaTeX export is that the resulting file will
> be set with the fonts of its surrounding document.
>
> Something like this works for me, where the \sffamily command uses the
> document's sans serif font and the file is called intervals.tex:
>
> \begin{figure}[htb!]
>   \centering
>   \sffamily
>   \input{../figure/intervals}
>   \caption[Elapsed time between Polynesian colonization of Hawai`i and
> fire-pit use]{Elapsed time between Polynesian colonization of Hawai`i
> and fire-pit use.}
>   \label{fig:elapsed-time}
> \end{figure}
>  
> All the best,
> Tom

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/

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