Hi Dan, Duncan and Yihui: I apologize for my late response. Dan: Your backslash explanation was great but yes, I think there was a transmission problem in the link I sent. I made the changes and everything compiled without a glitch but the actual tex file ends up with many begin{Schunk} and end{Schunk} statements and somehow I think this causes the pdf to not get put in the document. But atleast I learned I now understand the backslash issue and why my attempt wasn't working. So, you solved the problem that I had but another different issue now lurks but, given below, I'm gonna let it go. Thanks.
Duncan: Your solution worked. I'm not sure why I didn't think of seperating the two processes. That was a nice idea. I guess I got caught up in the cat method once I saw it. Thanks. Yihui: I'm starting to learn Rstudio by going through the recent book out on it. There's a section about knitR in the book so I hope to go over that and then turn to many of your other documents. Thanks for recommending knitR ( I loved the kitten statement at the link, especially since I have cats ) and it is something I plan on learning, in addition to 20 other thousand things on my list of "to be learned". Mark On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Yihui Xie <x...@yihui.name> wrote: > Other people in this thread have explained the rule of double > backslashes. I just want to add one more comment: > > That clever solution was in 2009 when knitr has not come out, and I > have used this picture several times to show how much I dislike it: > http://yihui.name/en/2012/06/enjoyable-reproducible-research/ > > With knitr, you can easily write your big code chunk (with lots of > "cats" jumping around) in a much more compact way: > > <<figthree, fig.pos="ht!", fig.align="center", out.width="5in", > out.height="5in", fig.cap="The resulting unpruned regression tree of > the California real estate data">>= > plot(cal.tree,uniform=TRUE,compress=TRUE,margin=0.0) > text(cal.tree, all=TRUE,fheight=1.0,fwidth=1.0) > @ > > Note the number "5" alone is not a legal LaTeX length; you should add > the unit such as "5in" or "5cm", etc. This chunk in knitr will > generate everything for you: > > - the figure environment > - center the figure > - add the figure position ht! > - add the figure caption > - add figure width and height > - add the figure label fig:figthree > > You, as the author, only write the R code (instead of both R and > LaTeX); other people, as the readers, only see the R code. Everything > else should go behind the scene. > > 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 Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Mark Leeds <marklee...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Everyone: I was having trouble getting the plot size correct when > > putting a plot in an sweave document. So, I searched on the internet and > I > > found a clever solution where the person uses > > the cat function to write latex code so he can include the cat code in > the > > chunk and place the plot using width and height. The solution is here: > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2009-April/195094.html. > > > > But the solution uses a backslash before the ending quotes in the cat > > statements that might be windows relevant possibly ? I'm not sure about > > that part but I'm on linux and when I tried my way to mimic that solution > > in the latex/sweave code below ( I think it's the same solution but > without > > the backslash on the closing quotes. I tried that also but got a > different > > error ) , Sweave doesn't like the start of the includegraphics command. > The > > error I get from Sweave is > > > > #======================================================= > > Error: chunk 9 (label = fig3) > > Error : '\i' is an unrecognized escape in character string starting "\i" > > Execution halted > > :~/research/equity/projects/tree_returns/report> > > #===================================================== > > > > The code is below but if anyone is interested and thinks they need the > > whole file to look at the problem, I can send it. I just didn't want to > > send the whole file here. Definitely the error has to do with the chunk > > below for sure ( even though it says chunk 9 because there is no chunk 9 > > ). Thanks a lot to anyone who can be bothered investigating because I've > > spent pretty much the whole day on this and think it's > > time to surrender !!!!!!!!!! or atleast give up for now and come back to > it > > with a fresher brain. Have a good night. > > > > # THE LATEX/SWEAVE CODE > > #================================================================ > > > > cal.tree is created in a previous chunk and that's fine. > > > > <<chunk08,label=fig3, fig=FALSE,result = tex>>= > > wid <- 5 > > hei <- 5 > > pdf("reg_tree-fig3.pdf", width = wid, height = hei) > > plot(cal.tree,uniform=TRUE,compress=TRUE,margin=0.0) > > text(cal.tree, all=TRUE,fheight=1.0,fwidth=1.0) > > dev.off() > > cat("\begin{figure}[ht!]") > > cat("\begin{center}") > > cat("\includegraphics[width = ", wid, ", height = ", hei, > > "]{reg_tree-fig3}") > > cat("\end{center}") > > cat("\caption{The resulting unpruned regression tree of the california > real > > estate data}") > > cat("\label{FIG:figthree}") > > cat("\end{figure}") > > @ > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.