this works - thanks baptiste! i'm working in Sweave right now - perhaps it will be tough in knitr as you mention.
On 5/25/2012 4:31 PM, baptiste auguie wrote: > you can open a device that has the exact dimensions of the table, > > g = tableGrob(head(iris, 4)) > png("test.png", width=convertWidth(grobWidth(g), "in", value=TRUE), > height=convertHeight(grobHeight(g), "in", > value=TRUE),units="in", res=150) > grid.draw(g) > dev.off() > > Doing this with knitr might be tricky though, since the unit > conversion opens a blank device window, and you'd want to define some > hook instead of manually creating the png file. > > I have another version of grid.table where you can specify the width > and height manually [*], e.g to span the full window, but it's not > necessarily a desirable thing (the spacing between rows and columns > can become too large). > > > HTH, > > baptiste > > > [*] experimental code at https://gist.github.com/2013903 > > On 26 May 2012 09:16, Alexander Shenkin <ashen...@ufl.edu> wrote: >> Thanks Yihui, >> >> That's a great idea, and comes close to the mark, except that I have to >> use png's in order to "Insert & Link" them as pictures in Word (and >> hence make the doc both shareable and update when new figures are >> generated). >> >> thanks, >> allie >> >> On 5/25/2012 2:57 PM, Yihui Xie wrote: >>> You may take a look at knitr's graphics manual which tells you how you >>> can automatically crop the white margins: >>> https://github.com/downloads/yihui/knitr/knitr-graphics.pdf ("Cropping >>> PDF Graphics"). >>> >>> I'm not sure if pdfcrop works in this case, though. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Yihui >>> -- >>> Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> >>> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name >>> Department of Statistics, Iowa State University >>> 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA >>> >>> >>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Alexander Shenkin <ashen...@ufl.edu> wrote: >>>> grid.table() works well, but using it in sweave creates graphics with >>>> very wide margins. I'm sure this has something to do with grid, and not >>>> just grid.table. Any idea how I can clip the graphic to the edges of >>>> the table graphic? I've looked into viewports, etc, but I can't seem to >>>> find anything that will clip a graphic to its edges, perhaps with some >>>> defined margin. >>>> >>>> any help greatly appreciated! >>>> >>>> thanks, >>>> allie >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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. ______________________________________________ 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.